** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Assignee: (unassigned) => Femma (femma)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1520889
Title:
Switching between more than two keyboards unnecessarily difficult
Status in Canonical System Image:
Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu UX:
Triaged
Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I have three keyboards installed - "English", "Chinese - Pinyin" and
"Emoji". Three might be considered a lot except that emoji is on a
separate keyboard and everyone needs emoji, so this would affect any
bilingual user.
Simply tapping the globe icon on the keyboard will never allow you to
select all three, it just toggles between the last two used. You have
to long press, then locate the keyboard entry you want, then tap it.
The irritating thing is that I usually switch between English and
Chinese, so a single tap mostly works. Unless I inserted an emoji, in
which case it switches to that instead. So switching to Chinese often
involves:
* tap globe icon
* notice it's wrong
* long press globe icon
* select Chinese
But then, I want to re-establish English as my next favourite option,
so before I actually type:
* long press globe icon
* select English
* tap globe icon (to switch back to Chinese)
...and now I can type my Chinese, if I can even remember what I wanted
to say after all of that.
Most other keyboards just cycle through all the keyboards, and that's
what a single tap should do here.
I can imagine a better, if complicated system. Imagine if instead of
a menu, long pressing brought up a constellation surrounding the globe
button. Say my keyboards are English, German, Chinese and Emoji:
DE ZH
\ /
EN --- o --- Em
Once I'd learned the layout, I could switch to any layout I want by
swiping from the globe in the appropriate direction.
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