No substitution for "Character Palette” GNOME panel applet available

[Petrus Adamus]

After the interception of GNOME panel use in Ubuntu 11.04, there is no application available with a function similar to "Character Palette” GNOME panel applet: a possibility to have instantly usable sets of embeddable special chars, without necessity of time-consuming searching for them every time and switching between applications like in the Character Map.

This lack is a big problem for users utilizing frequently a wider set of chars, mostly not present on keyboards.

[timmay143 (timothy-andrew-barber)]

Found an okay work around. Install KCharSelect which allows you to enter a search item. So if you want a variation of "n" then type n and search. Don't know about other characters which aren't related to the alphabet.

[Petrus Adamus (dohnp5a1)]

It is a very clumsy substitution: Non-alphabetic chars are hard to find, no memory keeps you to search the chars each time anew, besides the programme closed unexpectedly several times during a few minutes of my testing.

[Kim Tucker (ktucker)]

This problem seems to have resurfaced in Oneiric.