Non-XKB keyboard layouts cannot be chosen or selected via the keyboard applet

[fossfreedom]

[Impact]

 * Budgie Desktop primarily uses IBus to choose and select various keyboard layouts.
 * The inbuilt method to select layouts is using the keyboard layout applet.
 * non-xkb layouts such as Japanese are not shown in the applet - and hence cannot be chosen.
 * currently non-xkb users need to use fcitx via the appindicator applet to choose keyboard layouts.
 * I fixed this upstream and is currently working well in groovy/hirsute.
 * This SRU backports that patch to resolve this issue.

[Test Case]

 * Add a non-xkb keyboard layout via Language & Region - e.g. japanese kanji
 * Add the keyboard-layout applet to the panel via budgie-desktop-settings
 * Click the applet - note that the non-xkb layout is not visible in the popup and thus cannot be chosen.
 * Run software-properties-gtk from a terminal and Enable the proposed repository via the developer tab.
 * Install the packages: sudo apt install budgie-desktop budgie-core libbudgietheme0 libbudgie-private0 libbudgie-plugin0 gir1.2-budgie-1.0 libraven0
 * Logout and login.
 * Click the keyboard applet and choose the non-xkb layout.
 * Open gedit and type non-xkb characters.
 * Click the keyboard applet and choose UK or US layout
 * type in the text editor UK/US characters

[Regression Potential]

 * The worst case scenario is that enabling something that currently doesnt work would introduce instability/crashes into the budgie panel whenever the optional keyboard layout applet is manually added to the panel.
 * This is significantly mitigated by the fact it has been used actively by upstream for 4 months now, other rolling release distros, debian testing and now groovy/hirsute. No adverse reports have been made on either launchpad nor the upstream git hub tracker

[Other Info]

 * N/A
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.10
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-08 (205 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200407)
Package: budgie-desktop 10.5.1-6ubuntu0.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-52.57-generic 5.4.65
Tags: focal third-party-packages
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-52-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sbuild sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

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[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello fossfreedom, or anyone else affected,

Accepted budgie-desktop into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/budgie-desktop/10.5.1-6ubuntu0.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

10.5.1-6ubuntu0.2 tested with Japanese Kana.

Can confirm that can select Japanese Kana from the applet and type directly into a text editor.

Switch to GB and keyboard layout and text was ok. Switched to US and US keyboard layout chosen. Changed again to Kana and Japanese layout and characters can be typed.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for budgie-desktop has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package budgie-desktop - 10.5.1-6ubuntu0.2

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budgie-desktop (10.5.1-6ubuntu0.2) focal; urgency=medium

  * Bug-fix
    Allow non-xkb layouts to appear and chosen in the keyboard applet
    show-non-xkb-layouts.patch (LP: #1902317)
    Display spotify cover-art
    fix-spotify-album-art.patch (LP: #1895720)
    Fix broken chrome-based notifications
    chromium-browser-notifications.patch (LP: #1895697)

 -- David Mohammed <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Oct 2020 22:14:52 +0000