"toggle" mode for keyboard layout switching

Submitted by Vladimir

Assigned to Alexander Iliev

Link to original bug (#6241)

Description

Hello! What about adding a "toggle" mode to xkb-plugin? I mean such a mode, when pressing a key combination which should change current layout, xkb-plugin would not cycle between all the layouts present, but instead would cycle only between two the most recently used. For example, if I have 3 keyboard layouts (let's say, "ru","uk","us") and I type almost all the time using just 2 of them (let's say, "ru" and "us"), it would be very very convenient for me to switch between only two of them using a key combination. It would be especially useful when "blind" typing. The possibility to change the current layout to the 3rd one ("uk" in this case) still remains by using a mouse. There could be even 3 different keyboard shortcuts to fast-switch to some certain layout, but this is a secondary ability, though still useful too.

You could meet a similar behaviour in KKBSwitch (a 3d-party keyboard layout switcher for KDE3). It seemed to be very popular among users. I had been using it for some time too, and I would like to see such a functionality (if it is possible, of course) in Xfce's xkb-plugin. I hope, other users share my desire too. :)

Thanks. Vladimir.