[Bug 176113] New: multiple keyboard layouts: provide shared key-permanent shortcuts

[Maciej Pilichowski]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176113

           Summary: multiple keyboard layouts: provide shared key-permanent
                    shortcuts
           Product: kdelibs
           Version: 4.1
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdelibs-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: bluedzins at wp.pl


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

This issue was discusses in usability ML "National default shortcuts set".

multiple keyboard layouts: provide shared key-permanent shortcuts

...so if user had several layouts no matter what layout is chosen she/he would
still press the same keys (as shortcuts). No matter what layout is chosen when
user defines new shortcut it is shared with other layouts, so after a switch,
shortcut is still there.

Proposed solution -- when adding layouts (sys.settings) the first layout would
have special meaning as primary layout. This layout would be used to display
shortcuts in menus, shortcut dialogs, etc. 

And for usage -- example from ML.

DK keyboard layout for further reference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nederlandse_toetsenbordindeling_-_tekst_als_paden.svg

User has US as primary layout and has to press US characters ctrl= 
(which in this example is the same as keys), after adding DK it is 
still US ctrl= (keys) despite the fact than in DK pressing US key = gives °.

Another example:

I have US keyboard, but not US layout in KDE.
When I press 
`
(left, upper corner key) I get
_

I set ctrl+_ as zoom in. This mean I have to press US KEYS 
ctrl and ` the KDE shows it as ctrl+_ (because I set this layout as 
primary). Now, I add DK layout and I switch to it.

To zoom in, I still have to press US KEYS ctrl+` and still KDE shows 
this shortcut as ctrl+_. But in DK when I press US KEY ` alone I get @.
 
So, in short -- shared key-permanent shorcuts:
a) shortcuts KEYS are not moved during layout switch, you use the same 
KEYS
b) it is up to user what layout KDE uses for displaying shortcuts (it 
does not have to be hardware keyboard layout)
c) shortcuts always are displayed the same, no matter the layout is 
used
d) shorcuts are shared


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