Hello everyone!
<br><br>I have been working on some fixes improvements to KXkb, the TDE keyboard
<br>tool and layout switcher¹. The fixes should make configuring keyboard
<br>layouts easier and should solve some long-standing issues with keyboard
<br>switching (e.g. Bugzilla issue #100).
<br><br>One of the improvements that I have been thinking to include but for
<br>which I need user feedback concerns TDEPersonalizer, the wizard that
<br>gets shown on the first run of the desktop, or later, at users'
<br>choice. The first step of this wizard lets you choose your country and
<br>system language. The idea is that based on this information, the
<br>keyboard layouts will be conveniently set up for you with a sane default,
<br>with minimal need for user feedback (who can later adjust this default
<br>manually).
<br><br>But the problem is that I am not sure what that default should be. If
<br>you consider, for example, cyrillic languages or greek, a good default,
<br>in my opinion, would be a combination of the standard latin layout
<br>(English)&nbsp; plus the layout of that language (so you have two layouts
<br>that you can switch between). If you take languages based on the latin
<br>alphabet though (e.g. Italian, French, Czech etc.) users might not
<br><div>actually need a latin layout, so they will be fine with just the
layout<br>of the keyboard layout of their own language.
<br></div><br>A good solution IMO would be adding a checkbox just below country and
<br>language selection that would let you enable/disable the English
<br>layout. This checkbox would not be shown if the language you selected
<br>is already English (US, UK or any variant).
<br><br>So, I am asking for your feedback, especially those of you who use
<br>non-English keyboard layouts: What do you think of this idea? Do you
<br>think the checkbox approach is good enough? What should be the default
<br>state of the checkbox, enable or disable English layout?
<br><br>Please take in mind beginner Trinity users too.
<br><br>Your feedback will be greatly appreciated!
<br><br>--
<br>Philippe MAVRIDIS
<br><br>¹ The relevant pull request is here:
<br><a href="https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/304">https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/304</a><br><br>You can take a look at the discussion that has already happened thereif you want.
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