The next version of the Cinnamon desktop environment improvs the way alternative keyboard layouts and input methods are handled and configured. Both the keyboard settings panel and the keyboard applet will show IBus input alongside traditional keyboard layouts “as if they were the same”, say Mint’s developers. This will improve the user experience as, instead of managing “keyboard layouts” in one place and “input methods” in another, one can switch between, say, a French layout and a Japanese Mozc (IBus input method) from the same place. (For those of us who assumed all keyboard layouts map physical keys to characters, […]You're reading Linux Mint is Improving Keyboard Layout Switching in Cinnamon Desktop, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.