Ubuntu
unity-control-center package

keyboard input method system not available from keyboard configuration in gnome-control-center

Bug #1365755 reported by Daniele Varrazzo
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This bug affects 2 people
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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language-selector (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

The setting for the keyboard input system is not available in the only place where it should be set. It is only available instead in the separate application gnome-language-selector which has an icon in the gnome-control-center but is labeled as "Language Support".

This caused pain to me and a lot of other users because of the installation and default activation of iBus in 14.04. (​see #1365752). It took me a long time to find that the setting is in gnome-language-selector, and I've discovered just now, filing this bug, that there is a way to access it from the control center. 30 minutes ago I would have titled the bug just "keyboard input method not available in control center".

- "Language Support" should deal with the selection of a language. Setting the behaviour of the keyboard here is inappropriate.
- "Keyboard" should deal with the configuration of the keyboard. A setting that changes the behaviour of the keyboard such as the input method should be available here.

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
tags: added: trusty
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Hi Daniele, and thanks for your report.

Please note that Language Support is a multi-task tool. Besides setting language and regional formats, it also provides an interface for installing languages including language support, which for some languages includes IM engines. So it's not *so* strange that the IM framework selector is there too.

With that said, the location may not be optimal. Currently there is also a Text Entry panel, where the actual IM engines are set when applicable, and that panel might be an option. Or, if Text Entry would be converted to a sub-panel under Keyboard, Keyboard would probably be the appropriate place.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Btw, whatever the solution is going to be, it won't happen in trusty. (Neither in utopic.)

tags: removed: trusty
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