https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403281
David Edmundson <k...@davidedmundson.co.uk> changed:
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--- Comment #5 from David Edmundson <k...@davidedmundson.co.uk> ---
>Or what do you want know?
It's a bit unclear from the name/UI, and KDE is a bit too big for every dev to
know every bit of code.
Docs are surprisingly good:
Spare layouts allow to toggle between small number of layouts easily while
keeping more layouts handy close by. For example you might use 3 languages:
English, Ukrainian and German but first two are used often and third one just
occasionally. In this case you can configure first two as main layouts (setting
Main layout count: 2) and German one as spare one - when you toggle with
keyboard and left mouse button the switch will happen between main layouts only
but you can always choose 3rd layout with context menu.
When spare layout is chosen it replaces the last main layout (this is done for
technical reasons, usually global shortcuts work based on the 1st active layout
so it's more reliable to preserve the 1st layout when allowing to activate
spare layouts).
As X.org only allows to have 4 layouts to switch “spare layouts” feature also
allows to overcome this limitation: user can have up to 4 main layouts (managed
by X.org) but 4 more spare layouts allowed (managed by layout switcher). Thus
user can conveniently work with up to total of 8 layouts (although the 4 spare
layouts limit can be raised in the future).
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Sounds like a clunky UI, and the last part clearly isn't relevant here, but if
we're going to have an option it does make sense that we follow it.
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