Re: GNOME keyboard layout handling problems

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

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