Add keyboard layout button disabled in default live session

[Otus]

When booting the quantal iso testing images and selecting Try Ubuntu without changing the language or keyboard layout, it is impossible to add keyboard layouts. In system settings -> keyboard layout there are only four English layouts listed and the + button that should add a layout is grayed out.

When selecting a non-English layout by pressing F3 during boot the button is usable.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1066284

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I'm not able to duplicate this bug with yesterday's raring CD.

But…there is a long-standing limit of 4 keyboard layouts. I believe that will be fixed when we upgrade to ibus 1.4.99.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

There's a video in the duplicate bug 1055344 that demonstrates this for quantal.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's a combined issue, the xorg keyboard stack has a limitation for 4 layouts to be configured at the same time, from the video [1]
it seems that ubiquity set several english variant layouts and hits that limit, it should probably just configure one...

not a lot that gnome-control-center can do in any case (but it might be fixed with the new GNOME versions which will use ibus only for keyboard handling, that code is not available in Ubuntu yet and still being worked on)

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1055344/+attachment/3337071/+files/layout.webm

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

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:
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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