[Usability] Re: [Fwd: Re: Your final comments on gswitchit in 2.4...]

["Sergey V. Oudaltsov" <sergey oudaltsov clients ie>]

> Perhaps a better idea would be to just having different shortcuts fo
> the different layouts, and not use cycling at all. Or have cycling, but
> allowing the different layouts to be directly accessed by other
> shortcuts at the same time. Perhaps this is already possible (I haven't
> used gswitchit) but if so then I really don't see the problem.
Actually, having different shortcuts for different groups is highly 
problematic in xkb (if you solve it in generic way). I tried to play 
with keyboard grabbing at some point - it gave me no full success so I 
have up (if anyone is interested, I can give more details but I do not 
think this is a place to discuss that). So "no cycling" is IMHO better 
here. And actually that is what "secondary groups" feature does - takes 
some groups out from cycling.

> instead[1]. The flag customization and the secondary layout feature you
> describe very much sounds like such workaround functionality to me.
Well, flag customization issue is already solved here (remove pixmap 
customization, use layout name label by default). I just have to 
implement it ASAP:) Though I don't really understand why it is 
workaround (which problem does it actually workaround?:)

Secondary layouts looks like a kind of workaround (in UI terms, no 
internally:). But it works exactly the way people asked - so I'd say it 
is just another feature:)

> functionality is currently present in gswitchit. We can't start by
> assuming everything in there needs to be there for good reasons, so
Yes. I agree. Probably we Cyrillic people look a bit too agressive here. 
I could apologize for myself and others. We would just love one thing 
West European people to keep in mind - if some feature is not easy to 
understand, it does not necessarily mean it is useless - it probably 
just means they never encounter problems the feature solves, OK?:)

BTW, Christian, what would be your opinion on postscript-based preview?

Sergey