Keyboard Map Switcher and Flag
Posted: Fri 18 Sep 2009, 15:03
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... &start=135
I'm brand new to Puppy and I'm discovering Puppy 4 which I love. What I have is a request / suggestion for Pet or scriopt or widget or something to achieve the following:
I want the ability to be able to switch keyboard maps in the middle of a document from one language to another. I often work with English and French translation documents and sometime Spanish.
In Windows I simply add the keyboard layouts I want to my computer then when I want to switch there is Language ICON in the System tray, Click it and you get a list of keyboard maps available to select. Select the one you want and the Icon indicates the language. EN for English, FR for French etc.
Also doing this sets the language for the application being used at the time, so I can have one document open in a window where the language is set to English and another one where the language is set to French, making document comparisons and changes easy.
Can Puppy have a system tray ICON showing the language map in use and trigger a list on mouseover allowing you to switch langauges for that window?
I need this now ideally rather than in the next release - although hopefully people will find this useful enough that it is included in any future release as well.
At the moment I boot from live CD, with a pupsave file to record my settings, although I am trying to set this up to a frugal install on a new partition of my windows hard drive, once I understand what I am doing. So the fix needs to work in both.
THe best would be to have a little flag of the country whose language is being used in the bottom tray so it is always visible but changes according to the window being used. I'm thinking of the flags on the puppyorg site, so the ENglish keyboard would give you a Union Jack, the FRench one a Red white and Blue tricolour, the US one the Stars and Stripes - if that was all possible it would be really cool!
Hope that isn't too difficult?
STG
I'm brand new to Puppy and I'm discovering Puppy 4 which I love. What I have is a request / suggestion for Pet or scriopt or widget or something to achieve the following:
I want the ability to be able to switch keyboard maps in the middle of a document from one language to another. I often work with English and French translation documents and sometime Spanish.
In Windows I simply add the keyboard layouts I want to my computer then when I want to switch there is Language ICON in the System tray, Click it and you get a list of keyboard maps available to select. Select the one you want and the Icon indicates the language. EN for English, FR for French etc.
Also doing this sets the language for the application being used at the time, so I can have one document open in a window where the language is set to English and another one where the language is set to French, making document comparisons and changes easy.
Can Puppy have a system tray ICON showing the language map in use and trigger a list on mouseover allowing you to switch langauges for that window?
I need this now ideally rather than in the next release - although hopefully people will find this useful enough that it is included in any future release as well.
At the moment I boot from live CD, with a pupsave file to record my settings, although I am trying to set this up to a frugal install on a new partition of my windows hard drive, once I understand what I am doing. So the fix needs to work in both.
THe best would be to have a little flag of the country whose language is being used in the bottom tray so it is always visible but changes according to the window being used. I'm thinking of the flags on the puppyorg site, so the ENglish keyboard would give you a Union Jack, the FRench one a Red white and Blue tricolour, the US one the Stars and Stripes - if that was all possible it would be really cool!
Hope that isn't too difficult?
STG