[kde-doc-english] Fwd: Re: System Settings -- Keyboard Layouts Tab

[Burkhard Lück]

----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------

Betreff: Re: [kde-doc-english]  System Settings -- Keyboard Layouts Tab
Datum: Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 04:24:52
Von: Andriy Rysin <arysin at gmail.com>
An: Burkhard Lück <lueck at hube-lueck.de>, Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net>

On 06/18/2011 09:14 AM, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Hi Andriy,
>
> Am Freitag, 17. Juni 2011, um 20:56:38 schrieben Sie:
>> Hi Burkhard
>>
>> Shall I send it in email or edit some file? If latter which one and which
>> track?
>>
> Thanks for your quick response.
>
> Please launch "kcmshell4 kcm_keyboard", click the Help button and do a quick
> review of the content.
> Please simply mail your corrections/additional info for "Spare Layouts" to
> kde-doc-english at kde.org and we'll take care to get it into 4.7.1.
>
> Try to read from a Joe User Pov and add the help for Joe User (use case 
etc).
>
> Things that came to my mind when I tried to find out what "Spare Layouts" is
> (maybe this is wrong):
>
> * only enabled for>= 3 layouts, that is apparently the intended use case
> * seems to be some kind of "grouping" the layouts to quickly switch between
> two of them
> * with the context menü the "group" can be changed
> * what is the difference to toggle just through 3 or 4 layouts?
Hi Burkhard

I am not subscribed o kde-doc-english and a bit short on free time right 
now so here's the quick description of the feature:

Spare layouts.
Spare layouts allow to toggle between small number of layouts easily 
while keeping more layouts handy close by. For example you might use 3 
languages: English, Ukrainian and German but first two are used often 
and third one just occasionally. In this case you can configure first 
two as main layouts and German one as spare one - when you toggle with 
keyboard and left mouse button the switch will happen between main 
layouts only but you can always choose 3rd layout with context menu. 
When spare layout is chosen it replaces the last main layout (this is 
done for technical reasons, usually global shortcuts work based on the 
1st active layout so it's more reliable to preserve the 1st layout when 
allowing to activate spare layouts).
As X.org only allows to have 4 layouts to switch "spare layouts" feature 
also allows to overcome this limitation: user can have up to 4 main 
layouts (managed by X.org) but 4 more spare layouts allowed (managed by 
layout switcher). Thus user can conveniently work with up to total of 8 
layouts (although the 4 spare layouts limit can be raised in the future).

Please let me know if that's enough information
Thanks,
Andriy


-------------------------------------------------------------
-- 
Burkhard Lück