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Unfortunately, the options mentioned by Sean Fitzpatrick do not include the option for Shift with Numeric Keypad works as in MS Windows. I am quite certain that there are a number of other options that different users require that are not found in the terminal version of the reconfiguration package.
I am not the most technical of people, so I may get something wrong:
1/ Reading the above posts, I am under the impression that this option was removed in the name of simplification by upstream Gnome. If this is right, then there are two options:
- Upstream Gnome should change back and include the options as part of the keyboard layout definition utility.
- If Upstream Gnome will not make the change, then Ubuntu should include this as part of their configuration.
2/ Unless there is new information of which we are not aware, Upstream Gnome has not committed to reverting the change.
3/ Given that 14.04 is due to be released in 3 months or so, and any changes need to be tested, I would like to suggest that a utility to manage the keyboard setup should be developed for Ubuntu. I'm not so sure that it should be in the Unity Tweak tools, since the supported derivatives (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Gnubuntu, etc.) do not use Unity and therefore may not install the tweak tools for Unity.
4/ In an ideal world, the utility would be included as part of the default installation, but there may be compelling reasons (space) why this may not be possible. If the goal is still to be able to install using a CD, then the ideal world would probably not be achievable.
5/ Whatever the outcome, two things are clear:
- There needs to be a solution that includes an easy, GUI-based option to configure the various options on the keyboard, and
- If the change is not reverted by Upstream Gnome, then it is a change that needs to be properly documented and easily accessible in the Release Notes for Ubuntu 14.04.
There are a lot of us who use various keyboard configuration options and in order to continue being able to do so, we should not have to resort to 'hand editing' configuration files to use functionality that has been easily available for as long as I've used ubuntu (six years).