how to change keyboard layout in e-17

[drhadidy]

in my previous installs of e-17 when i added new locale(Arabic for 1 laptop and Russian for the other) i had an option while installing the new locale to chose which key can toggle the keyboard layout so i could change the writing language... (i used to chose the left MSwindows button for that)
this time i didnt get that option!!!
so now i have the English and Arabic locales installed on my laptop but i can write only in English...
how can i change the writing language? how to assign a button(preferably the left windows button) to do that?
thx

[Texstar]

Let me start by stating the obvious. The E17 desktop has never been considered stable and their developers have stated the E17 DE is under heavy development. Raster the E developer says the current language module is not functioning yet in the updated E-17 packages but should be soon. It is currently listed as e/BROKEN/E-MODULES-EXTRA/language in their SVN. They are pushing for a stable E17 release soon so lots of things are changing weekly. They fixed the file manager navigation last week. I will be updating the packages again soon.

Tex

[Linuxera]

Thanks for the update on what got updated Tex.  I am assuming the keyboard layout is also what borked my keyboard functions as I had two languages enabled and it actually worked.. but now some of the keys are disabled altogether.  I'll be patient and see how well the E17 crew does as this option didn't even work on the earlier releases. 

 

[drhadidy]

well that language module never worked for me in any e-17 install!!!!
didnt know why it was there from the beginning
i could change the keyboard layouts first using the KDE layout changer( from configure your dektop KDE ) which i will be using now....
or by the option which i used to get during the add locale... which has disappeared now!!!
hope it will come back and get more stable...
thank you for all the effort guys

[Linuxera]

drhadidy,
  I was never able to get more than one language until the recent update (a week or so ago), but then for some reason my keyboard went haywire.  I was assuming it was the ps2 keyboard except for the fact it serves more than one computer via KVM switch and still worked properly on another computer with a remaining MiniMe 2009 install on it.  So, that being said, the only thing that could have happened, at least the way I see it is,  upgrades knocked out some of the functionality of that module as it's being worked on.  Stuff happens, and we will get past this developmental stage.  I hope, I hope, I hope... 

[drhadidy]

drhadidy,
  I was never able to get more than one language until the recent update (a week or so ago)

this is very strange!!! coz i could get the other languages work since i installed the beta2 iso!! and that was the next day the iso was issued!! and i could get the russian and arabic keyboard layouts work with english(on 2 different laptops)
using the add locale trick...
its just now that it doesnt work!! so its the opposite of you!! even now the english-russian laptop is working fine....
anyhow...im sure that the development is going on... we can feel the difference day by day...
laets just wait and enjoy:-)

[Joble]

I think e-17 is one of the more interesting projects going on.  I hope they get the bugs squashed soon.  I look forward to playing with it some more and testing stuff as time permits.

[Texstar]

I think e-17 is one of the more interesting projects going on.  I hope they get the bugs squashed soon.  I look forward to playing with it some more and testing stuff as time permits.

I just got an email from The Rasterman.

Eet 1.3.0 has been released with several bugfixes and improvements. It is
considered stable. It is available from:

http://download.enlightenment.org/releases/

Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet, Elementary and Enlightenment
have had a snapshot release (snapshot 49539), and can be downloaded from:

http://download.enlightenment.org/snapshots/2010-06-07/

If you are taking source from SVN, then use SVN revision 49539.

Eet 1.3.0 was released, with the following changes:

    * Make all operations on an Eet_File thread safe
    * Fix error when retrieving a different float type than the stored one
    * Reduce conversion with a little memory overhead
    * Include winsock2.h in eet_image.c for htonl definition on Windows
    * Fix Visual Studio project files
    * Make eet_data_descriptor_free safe to call on NULL pointer
    * More work on eet_node dump code
    * Add fully functional eet_node dump code
    * Don't mess up when memory realloc failed during data descriptor creation
    * Fix another thread deadlock in mutex handling even in a single-threaded
app
    * Rewrite Eet_Data. Now you can do list/hash/array of strings and all the
test suite is passing
    * Add eet_data_node_decode_cipher and eet_data_node_read_cipher
    * Fix amalgamation
    * eet_cipher.c: Fix arithmetic pointer on void *
    * Add a mempool for Eet_Node
    * Add experimental API to walk Eet_Node tree
    * Add VAR_ARRAY tests
    * Improve security by zeroying cipher material as soon as possible
    * Fix override of global symbols
    * Fix clearcache race condition
    * Fix eet_data_node_read_cipher return type
    * Add Eet_Connection
    * Improve eet_eina_file_data_descriptor_class_set by using
eina_hash_direct_add to avoid duplication hash key string
    * Fix file corruption reported by Tiago Falcao - tiago@profusion.mobi
    * Add eet_sync
    * Only delete the file at the last possible moment
    * Reduce opening file descriptor
    * Handle fixed point in data stream
    * Add EET_G_UNION and EET_G_VARIANT
    * Add EET_VERSION_MAJOR, EET_VERSION_MINOR
    * Add Eet_Version, eet_version
    * Make configure.ac use m4 defines for version
    * Support SVN revision in version check

The snapshot release of Eina, Evas, Ecore, Embryo, Edje, E_Dbus, Efreet,
Enlightenment and Elementary includes lots of improvements and fixes. Too many
to put here, but these are not considered stable yet, and thus we don't track
changelogs. They do impose soname changes and module versioning now to make
packaging cleaner alongside SVN source installs. Please download, try and test
these.

[Agust]

I think e-17 is one of the more interesting projects going on.

Truth, it's so different for that reason I loved the first time you use it.(Enlightenment = patience)

Anyway since the update of 01/06 , e17 works very fine for my.  . Thank you Tex  .

Greetings:
Agust

[Texstar]

Expect new packages soon. Hopefully they will be stable enough Linuxera will quit chewing on my butt. 

[Linuxera]

Expect new packages soon. Hopefully they will be stable enough Linuxera will quit chewing on my butt. 

Butt butt, it's so tasty!!!   

[Linuxera]

I think e-17 is one of the more interesting projects going on.  I hope they get the bugs squashed soon.  I look forward to playing with it some more and testing stuff as time permits.

I didn't see this post, I didn't see this post, I didn't see this post... 

[Joble]

What has been seen cannot be unseen.  I love E-17 and it's potential, as much as the rest of the fans.  While of course, trying to maintain Xfce.  I look forward to testing any iso you put out.

Let me re-emphasize this point:

anyhow...im sure that the development is going on... we can feel the difference day by day...
laets just wait and enjoy

Wow.

[drhadidy]

Expect new packages soon. Hopefully they will be stable enough Linuxera will quit chewing on my butt. 

this is just great 
as always you are the best...
great job guys....
waiting with anticipation 

[OMSkates]

Expect new packages soon. Hopefully they will be stable enough Linuxera will quit chewing on my butt. 

this is just great 
as always you are the best...
great job guys....
waiting with anticipation 

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