kde keyboard layout configuration: label editing trouble

[jcfp]

Binary package hint: kdebase-bin

In kde's keyboard layout configuration, as found under "Regional & Language" of 'systemsettings' or accessable directly from it's icon on the kde panel, the 'label' field suffers from the following bugs:

- Editing the labels is possible but as soon as one completely clears the label in an attempt to edit it, the label resets to some default value. As a result, editing the label only works if the user makes sure that the label field is never completely empty during editing. Additionally, it seems impossible to set an empty label (in order to show only the flag but no letters in the taskbar/panel indicator).

- Also, when adding a fresh layout like "US English", the label is set to "us". Next, selecting a different layout variant within that keyboard layout doesn't change the label to match, only after clearing the label field the matching label (like "usd" for dvorak variant or "usm" for mac) shows up.

These bugs were found while investigating bug #130945 which deals with another bug related to keyboard layouts in kde.
Kubuntu Feisty, KDE 3.5.6, kdebase 3.5.6-0ubuntu20.1

[jcfp (jcfp)]

Also exists in kubuntu gutsy tribe 4; kdebase 3.5.7-1ubuntu15

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

The first part of this bug is fixed in KDE 4 in Intrepid.

The second part behaves a little differently now. Changing the layout variant doesn't change the label at all. However, I'm not sure if that's a bug because I think it just assumes you could have a custom label and it shouldn't change it.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

If you think the current behavior in KDE4 is a bug, please file it at bugs.kde.org and link here. Otherwise, please close this.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The variant gets its own column in KDE 4.1, so I don't think this is an issue.