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Input language is not known without any user operations, when multiple input languages are enabled |
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Issue descriptionGoogle Chrome 69.0.3464.0 (Official Build) dev (64-bit) Revision 3c26b60e3842fee660bcff5eb35aa0587d795f02-refs/branch-heads/3464@{#1} Platform 10798.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel eve What steps will reproduce the problem? (1) open the settings, advanced > Input Methods, enables English and Japanese input (2) open a browser window (3) focus on the omnibox What is the expected result? Can see which language (English or Japanese) is activated for the current text input session, without any user operations What happens instead? Nothing Note that historically this language information appears on the right-bottom area of the screen. Now it's gone. The input language information is visible within the system tray, however, the user needs to open the system tray. That information needs to be available to the users without any operations. I believe this is a serious regression for multi-language input users, and such users are quite common in east Asia.
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Jun 21 2018
(I think the spec is at https://gallery.googleplex.com/projects/MCHbtQVoQ2HCZXS6M2rSjiqy/files/MCG16K9U0aaVg9n6665EzXbKwMSJbxAVNpw, but it seems to be low-res and is hard to read.) I suspect that the decision to remove a11y-related icons from the tray may also be problematic -- cc-ing a few people as a heads-up. Can this be reconsidered? I feel like it's important to make information about some user-enabled functionality like input methods and a11y readily available.
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Jun 21 2018
c02: While I agree that dropping a11y icon might be problematic, I feel like it would be better to separate the issue per each icon/element since the solution could be different. For example, the language information does not have to be back to the status area exactly if the required information is provided properly.
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Jun 21 2018
Filed Issue 855190.
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Jun 21 2018
#c01: I see. I also agree that it does not have to be in the bottom right of the screen. An option is the language indicator popup, which appears just below the text cursor when the user switches the input language (see the attached image in case it is unclear what the indicator popup means). Maybe showing it also on-focus automatically (when multiple input languages are active) would be helpful. WDYT?
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Jun 22 2018
#2 (off topic): you can fix low-res by clicking on "SHOW ORIGINAL" button shown at the bottom when the doc is opened
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Jun 22 2018
cc-ed a few people regarding the IME things
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Jun 25 2018
I'm wondering whether the "Show input menu on shelf" feature can solve this issue. Now the feature is sitting behind a deep buried setting in the Language and Input Method settings. Should we by default enable it if user enables more than one input methods?
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Jun 25 2018
Thanks for bringing that up. The big cleanup we're doing in the status tray may lead to some unpleasantness for sure. In this particular case, I think this is worth bringing back, either in panel form or in the status tray itself, as an exception. I'll sync with UI review and circle back.
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Jun 25 2018
From offline chat, just to make it clear, the change of removing the language indicator is only relevant for tablet mode, where the user can see the layout of the keyboard on the VK. It's also where we want to support portrait orientation so most critical for that. For clamshell mode we still show the language indicator.
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Jun 25 2018
Restoring the icon for non-tablet mode.
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Jun 27 2018
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Jun 28 2018
Spec is available in the Launcher, Shelf & Apps gallery here: https://gallery.googleplex.com/projects/MCHbtQVoQ2HCZXS6M2rSjiqy/files/MCFQynNxbfc7gEm06mlQjAmGwMSJbxAVNpw Excerpt attached.
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Jun 29 2018
The following revision refers to this bug: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f commit c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f Author: Tetsui Ohkubo <tetsui@chromium.org> Date: Fri Jun 29 05:46:44 2018 Add IME mode icon to UnifiedSystemTray. This CL restores IME mode icon to UnifiedSystemTray. The icon was removed as a part of UnifiedSystemTray & Shelf spec, but it turned out the icon is important especially for CJK users with laptop mode. We still hide the icon for tablet mode. TEST=manual BUG= 854948 Change-Id: I55bdd88627f91c9e285242b725c4a55451d0c60a Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1116412 Commit-Queue: Tetsui Ohkubo <tetsui@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Yoshiki Iguchi <yoshiki@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#571395} [modify] https://crrev.com/c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f/ash/BUILD.gn [add] https://crrev.com/c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f/ash/system/unified/ime_mode_view.cc [add] https://crrev.com/c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f/ash/system/unified/ime_mode_view.h [modify] https://crrev.com/c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f/ash/system/unified/unified_system_tray.cc [modify] https://crrev.com/c3b34354fd7572702bf619b1e4bf9b46d9974b6f/ash/system/unified/unified_system_tray.h
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Jun 29 2018
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Jun 29 2018
Thank you for fixing! |
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Comment 1 by uekawa@google.com
, Jun 21 2018