Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?

From: rlinuz (rlinuz_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 17 Aug 2004 - 16:07:30 IDT


KDE has this option available to users in its Control Center | Regional
| Keyboard Layout | Switching Options.

By watching some of the side-effects, it *seems* that KDE dynamically
loads the keyboard layout based on focus events of frame widgets.

-S.

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 15:52, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004, rlinuz wrote about "Re: [OT] Is MS friendlier than Linux ?":
> > There's an option in KDE to set the layout switching policy to
> > Global/Application/Window.
>
> Ok, so now we heard that both KDE and Gnome have this feature. Can somebody
> point us to any document about it, or perhaps even the code?
>
> Any chance that this code could perhaps be made useful universially for
> X11, outside of KDE and Gnome? I am still a huge fan of the old Unix
> philosophy, where you should have small applications that do one thing
> best, rely on as little as possible, and be able to cooperate with as many
> as possible other applications.

=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail linux-il-request_at_linux.org.il



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Tue 17 Aug 2004 - 16:17:15 IDT