just wait till windows randomly decides to add some other layouts and mess with the switching order
Re:Windows 11 in Svelte
by philistine on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:00AM
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WHY DOES IT DO THAT!!!?
Re:Windows 11 in Svelte
by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @09:48AM
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It doesn't? I'm multilingual and always had 3 keyboard languages in parallel and never had any of those issues happen in 15+ years and 6 versions of Windows.
Most likely he was hitting alt+space by accident which cycles through them without him realizing.
Hot take: I feel like a lot of Windows issues people raise are actually user errors/accidents, then blaming the OS for it.
Systemic user error is a software defect.
Re:Windows 11 in Svelte
by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:32AM
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How the user mashing random keys a SW defect? The SW does what you tell it to do.
Random mysterious keybinds that nobody asked for
Re:Windows 11 in Svelte
by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:41AM
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Every OS has it's own keybinds. It's not their fault you don't know them.
Re:Windows 11 in Svelte
by philistine on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:18PM
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I know the keybind to switch languages. I'm ok with it. I'm genuinely asking why Windows is adamant that I must have more keyboard language options than the two very specific ones I want.
If enough people are unaware that they're telling the software to do something and are confused by its behavior, then the software needs to better indicate what it's doing and why.
Could be ctrl+shift. It's easy to mistype, and there's no UI feedback. Also used to only change a single window's language (not sure if that's the case anymore, as I use win+space).
Searching for such a simple thing in the control panel was infuriating to say the least. I finally found it, random clicking in every potential places and it was in the most unintuitive place you could think of.
You would expect "keyboard layout" search to bring helpful results but it does not.