Author Topic: [done] Switching keyboard layouts  (Read 781 times)

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[done] Switching keyboard layouts
« on: 23 October 2011, 23:13:04 »
I saw that some people suggested things to improve the usability of the chat, so i'd like to suggest two more improvements two the chat:

- the ability to copy and past links (or words using the mouse)
- the ability to switch keyboard layouts

The first suggestion is easy to understand, the second not i think, so i want to explain it better. People that dont use latin letters (like russian,chinese, japanese etc.) usually have their keyboards with latin letters too, they press a tab and for example they can write a piece in their language and then switching to english and writing in english. While i see for most of the user this is not a thing they care of (for example im italian and to write in english or italian i dont need this), i think it's very important because the next release of megaglest will add support also for non latin letters. Think if you play with a person from Russia for example, if he has megaglest in fullscreen he can't switch language so even if you talk to him in english he can't reply in english because he can use only Cyrillic letters during your chat. As i said for people that use latin alphabet may sound useless but im sure for those who dont use it it would be useful (btw if there are people that agree with me tell it). I think megaglest should allow the player to change the language of keyboard (i dont know if keyboard layout is the right word) and maybe show for example "It" o "ITA" for italian or "RU" or "RUS" for russian. Of course if you dont have other language installed on your pc megaglest chat should not show these things :) I hope i explained the thing in an understandable way. Greetings.
« Last Edit: 27 October 2011, 06:22:28 by tomreyn »
I translated Megaglest in italian and i keep the translation updated.

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Re: Others chat improvements
« Reply #1 on: 25 October 2011, 18:57:09 »
I've added some experimental code (Press CTRL-L to select from popup menu or CTRL-SHIFT-L to toggle to the next language in the list). This should work from nearly everywhere in the game.

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Re: Others chat improvements
« Reply #2 on: 25 October 2011, 21:08:49 »
Thank you Softcoder! If this feature will be present in the beta i will sure test it and give you feedback about it :)
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Re: [done] Switching keyboard layouts
« Reply #3 on: 27 October 2011, 06:24:43 »
Unless it gets removed again it will be.
I've just renamed this thread to Switching keyboard layouts since we can only have one feature request per thread. Please consider filing another one about the copy + paste feature.
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