No way to change the keyboard layout when entering password in enigmail

[Volodya]

What i do:

Type a letter in Russian
Press send
Note that the password prompt for the key opens
Try to change the keyboard layout to English to type the password

What happens:

Layout doesn't change, which forces me to cancel, change layout in the letter window, and then attempt to send again.

What i expect to happen:

I should be able to send the letter regardless of the current layout, there should be a way to change the layout in the password prompt window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: enigmail 2:1.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 30 11:08:36 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-02 (27 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: enigmail
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

If anything, this is probably an issue in pinentry. What is the title of the window for the passphrase? Are you using Unity? Have you tried to switch the language from the Unity taskbar icon?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Volodya (volodya)]

This was a long time ago, and since then i've upgraded to XUbuntu 16.04.

Currently the password window always has US layout when it starts regardless of what i used to type an e-mail, which is an awesome way of doing that.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for reporting back. Defaulting to US would create problems for users deliberately using non-ASCII characters in their passwords so I wouldn't consider it a true fix.

[Volodya (volodya)]

On 05/12/16 11:03, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> Thank you for reporting back. Defaulting to US would create problems
> for users deliberately using non-ASCII characters in their passwords so
> I wouldn't consider it a true fix.

But it should default to the same thing. Because otherwise you would have to
double/triple check what language you have set before you send the e-mail.

If you will change it, at least have an option to default to the same layout
each time, because it is very useful as it is now. Using non-ASCII is still
possible, but you need to change on the password field, which a person would
just remember to do each time (regardless what language the e-mail was in).

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[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This is then something you should lobby for upstream. Ubuntu cannot and will not shoulder the burden of developing your intended solution and the on-going maintenance cost. This would have to happen upstream.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I suggest https://www.enigmail.net/index.php/en/support to report a ticket and/or RFE