Comment 7 for bug 19159

Hi fellow bug reporters,

I can confirm these fault symptoms.

I have the same observations, like Jorge:

"Changing keyboard layout or model in System->Preferences->Keyboard has no effect
at all, aside from changing the desktop theme for some seconds, and then
reverting to normal, which is very strange."

--> I witness the same strange "refresh" of the gnome windows... all windows go
to the standard theme for a second, and then come back.

Jorge wrote:

"Throuh using the Keyboard Indicator ulility, I have been able to make my
keyboard work , even though, strange as it may seem, my keyboard behaves like a
Brazillian keyboard when the keyboard indicator is displaying "USA" and behaves
like an USA keyboard when the keyboard indicator is displaying "Bra"."

--> The same happens with my Swiss German keyboard. I get the Swiss German
layout when the panel indicator shows "USA" and I get an "us" keyboard layout
when the indicator shows "Che".

I have also noticed that the keyboard indicator *does* change the kb layout, but
*only for each individual gnome window*. That is, if I click on another window,
the indicator flips back to the alternate keyboard layout and the keyboard
behaviour for that particular window is flipped back too. I need to toggle the
indicator for each individual window, for example if I use 'Save As...' in
Gedit, the 'Save As...' popup window will have the wrong keyboard layout (i.e.
not the one I successfully manually selected for Gedit)!

I have been debugging / fiddling around with this bug a lot in the last days and
it's driving me mad! ;-)

I think this bug can be marked as duplicate of my bug 21767 , which has been
assigned to Daniel Stone with severity 'major', so it is being investigated... :-)