Misleading icons for “Keyboard” and “Text Input”

[Frederik Elwert]

Control Center has two settings panels for keyboard related settings: “Keyboard” and “Keyboard Layout”. The icons used for these panels are misleading, as they suggest exact the opposite content:

- The “Keyboard Layout” icon depicts tree keys, two of which are connected by an orange line. This suggest something like “keyboard shortcuts”, where you combine two or more keys to trigger certain actions. But shortcuts are part of the “Keyboard” panel.
- The “Keyboard” icon depicts a whole computer keyboard. This suggests that one can configure the keyboard as a whole, i.e. its layout.

Thus, I would suggest switching the icons used for these panels.

P.S.: One could also question the categories these settings belong to: Personally, I would expect the keyboard layout to define the “Hardware” aspect of the keyboard, while keyboard shortcuts are more of a “Personal” setting.
P.P.S.: A related, but different bug is #883256 which suggests merging these categories altogether.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 688d20c2367428cd47393f8945b33f66
CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
Date: Mon Jun 10 10:39:25 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-08-05 (674 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-05 (65 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu6.1
 deja-dup 26.0-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.6bzr13.04.05-0ubuntu1.1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.2daily13.04.09-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.3daily13.03.26-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

THank you for your bug report, indeed it looks like they should be reversed

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I've merged the panels in lp:~robert-ancell/unity-control-center/merge-keyboard-text-entry, not sure what design/others think. To me it makes no sense for these to be separate.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

On 2014-03-26 00:57, Robert Ancell wrote:
> I've merged the panels in
> lp:~robert-ancell/unity-control-center/merge- keyboard-text-entry,
> not sure what design/others think. To me it makes no sense for these
> to be separate.

I have no strong opinion on what's the best UI design in this respect going forward, but in any case I don't think a merge should land in 14.04, since it would break the documentation on the topics.

Also, please note that bug #883256 was written when keyboard layout settings were separated from IBus input methods. Since "Text Entry" integrates those, and before a possible change, I'd suggest that also users of input methods are consulted.