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ubiquity package

Fresh installation of Ubuntu installs poor choice of keyboard for gd

Bug #1390893 reported by Akerbeltz
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

Apologies if I sound a little frustrated but I've been going round in circles since May last year trying to fix what seems to be a simple issue.

When a user installs a fresh version of Ubuntu and selects Gaelic (gd) as the locale, it installs IBM 166 as the default keyboard. This is unused and unusable for Gaelic, I have no idea why this became default in the first place. This is not about the order in which they're displayed in the list of available keyboards, this is about the keyboard the system installs and sets as default.

The l10n mailing list pointed me at freedesktop (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64478) where I got redirected to Ubuntu. I filed a bug but was told it's not a bug issue and to open a question. I opened a question (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/229177) which has remained unresolved since May 2013.

Could someone *please* help me?

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

This seems like it's just the installers choice of keyboard; so setting for Ubiquity.

affects: ubuntu → ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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GunChleoc (gunchleoc) wrote :

Thanks for assigning the package.

The default should be "English (UK, extended WinKeys)".

http://www.igaidhlig.net/en/linux-ubuntu-co/

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1390893

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Akerbeltz (fios) wrote :

The problem persists and I'm not sure why a log is needed for changing the keyboard layout that is installed with the OS. It's not that the installation makes an error during installation of the layout. It just installs a keyboard layout that is not user-friendly for the locale.

Phillip Susi (psusi)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
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