101–108 of 108 posts
Surely a flag (country symbol) is the wrong identifier for a language though? There is a many-to-many relation between countries and languages, so flag for language is a bad UI choice.
It is but it has become a standard over time. People know what it means. There are many cultural and language things that make zero sense but just became that way.
Tap 英数 to input Alphabet, tap かな to input Japanese kana. https://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/8567/as-images.apple...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A shift that the vast majority of human beings who have ever lived have not made and will not make. Even if that shift were desirable, it's not going to happen. If you tell people that their nation is an irrelevant construct, most of them will tell you to FO.
Cool, we should totally stick to killing each other over made up nonsense then.
Wether you remove flags or not, destroy states or not, that won't change. Just a wishful thinking like Fukuyama's end of history or countries with mcdonalds never going to war against each other.
I would definitely fire all responsible people if i were Steve Jobs.
GNOME also uses letters (and Windows), so I’m fine with that.
I would say that I am a true international user with 3 layouts. I just use the control-space keyboard shortcut, I get a big popup in the middle of the screen showing the currently selected keyboard map.
I'm not getting a large popup. How do you get it to show up? I've been using this shortcut[0] to switch between input layouts. Before realizing that I could set a shortcut for it, I used this utility[1] + Alfred for it. This is still quite useful if you want to switch to a specific keyboard layout. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/urcqU1i.png [1]: https://github.com/myshov/xkbswitch-macosx
Here is a thread with a screenshot and some users saying that the popup not working might be related to having the shortcut mapped to do something else: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3045492
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not getting a large popup. How do you get it to show up? I've been using this shortcut[0] to switch between input layouts. Before realizing that I could set a shortcut for it, I used this utility[1] + Alfred for it. This is still quite useful if you want to switch to a specific keyboard layout. [0]: https://i.imgur.com/urcqU1i.png [1]: https://github.com/myshov/xkbswitch-macosx
I didn't change any setting related to this and it has always been there. Like I said, the default shortcut is Control-Space. Here is a thread with a screenshot and some users saying that the popup not working might be related to having the shortcut mapped to do something else: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3045492
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of boxes to check or uncheck in the system preferences, so no, this is not how “Apple operates with everything in every instance”.
Compare it to other OSes and you will see that 'plenty' is not actually a lot in this case. I really was thrilled when I finally moved over to KDE from macOS. Over the years they had forced a number of changes I was really unhappy with. Like the inability to put virtual desktops in a grid, among others, that was pulled somewhere around 10.9 or so. It turned out that KDE just offers this and most of my other annoyance…
"Plenty" in my case is "more than I care about" (plus, there are other things you can set up using the command line). The assertion in the OP twas that there was none whatsoever, though.
