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

[Daniele Varrazzo]

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.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

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.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

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