Re: GNOME keyboard layout handling problems

[Petko Ditchev <pditchev gmail com>]

On 09/24/2013 03:51 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 24 September 2013 14:42, Petko Ditchev <pditchev gmail com> wrote:
> > 1. Disabling ctrl+shift , alt+shit , etc. shortcuts for switching between
> > layouts is IMO a step back in usability . Not to mention that everyone and
> Those shortcuts still work.
>
> > their grandma is used to switch layouts with the now depricated in GNOME
> > shortcuts , but the new default is just not easy to use on some keyboards
> > (my laptop for example) . And as far as I've seen the main reason to change
> > the behaviour like that is not to interfere with shortcuts in the apps (and
> > shell) like the ctrl+shift+T to revive a tab in Firefox . But that's just
> > not a viable argument - the shortcut should be evaluated at key release ,
> > which means there's no conflict between said shortcuts .
> Actually quite a few people seem to disagree with you because we've
> got several bug reports specifically asking for those shortcuts to
> trigger on key press.
>
> > (I know I can switch back with the Tweak tool but that's not the point)
> You can also use Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Typing > Modifiers-only ...
>
> > 2.There's a bug I posted about some weeks ago , that affects the case "Qt5
> > application on GNOME" . And since I use QtCreator and Qt5 this affects both
> > the IDE and my apps . And as a user with more than one layout this affects
> > me pretty heavily . Here's the thread on the GNOME list :
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-August/msg00225.html
> > (no reply)
> I'm sorry I didn't reply but I did look into this. It's a bug in Qt
> 5.1 and I pointed it to the Qt developer in
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23202
>
> Rui
Thank you for the kind reply . As for the modifiers only option - it's 
either new , or I completely missed it when I tackled the issue at first 
, it completely solves my first concern . As for the bug with Qt - 
thanks for having a look , lets hope that gets picked up soon .

Petko