http://community.livejournal.com/xkbconfig/304.html has the latest instance of the discussion. The thing is that the keyboard layout configuration was rewriten and features were lost in the name of some tiny bit of efficiency. FWIW the keyboard layout switching in early versions of Gnome 2 and now in KDE have no significant speed difference to the current Gnome variant, but allow more then 4 languages. Now it has come to a point where users that need more then 4 languages (or even just think that they might need more then 4 languages sometime in the future) are forced not to use Linux (or to use KDE if they are sufficiently advanced). The 4 language limit is a design choice that restricts the number of configurable layouts to a fixed arbitrary limit. Some users do need more then that or know/feel that they will need that in the future, for example, people working at multinational companies or international charities, as well as translators that know more then a few languages. I know 5 lanuages and am trying to learn a 6th. With the world going multicultural such diversity will only increase, while Gnome will be stuck at 4.
-- Impossible to configure more the 4 keyboard layouts https://launchpad.net/bugs/56912 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
