Re: x11 guidance (slightly off-topic)

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 20:14, Sergey V. Oudaltsov wrote:
> > We can't yet consider Xkb standard, though GTK+ takes considerable
> > advantage of it when available. There are lots of systems out there
> > with it missing or turned off, and GTK+ will need to run on such 
> > systems.
> Thanks. Some while ago I proposed to implement independent keyboard
> layouts for GtkNotepad pages. This would be handy for gaim, xchat, ...
> But my request was ignored and no feedback was raised. May I dare to ask
> again the opinion of the people around here? I think this would be nice
> feature to have - and useful for all non-american people too...

Well, useful for a subset of non-American people. (Dual group
keyboards are used basically for non-Latin scripts that don't require
an input method.... so Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic...)

But I seem to remember raising a question last time and I don't
think there was a satisfactory answer ... if the keyboard group
should be saved per-notebook page, shouldn't it be saved per
toplevel window as well?

Regards,
                                   Owen


> It would be easy to implement it using XKBlib.h - and not too difficult
> to #ifdef it (or even determine XKB presence at runtime).

Well, look at how keyboard direction works in gdkkeymap-x11.c and
I think you'll see what a keyboard-group interface would look like.
But someone would have to look at how this works on Windows.