Accessibility and the graphics stack

Posted Oct 24, 2014 20:27 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Accessibility and the graphics stack by nim-nim
Parent article: Accessibility and the graphics stack

Yes, I've never understood why switching input language should also switch the keyboard layout at the same time. If the key is marked Q or @ it should stay like that and not change to A or " just because I want a different spellchecker. I think all major platforms (Win and Mac too) make this mistake. Odd, given the number of users who speak more than one language and need to work in both (without plugging in a new keyboard each time...)

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Accessibility and the graphics stack

Posted Oct 25, 2014 8:09 UTC (Sat) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

Actually, they do not make this mistake, the windows language bar for example let the user map different locales to the same layout from day one (it certainly helped that it was originally written by the office team which understands text constrains; but it was never restricted to office unlike the various toys we get *nix-side)

You can see from dstone denials understanding still has not come to the X/wayland devs (so much the pity)