keyboard layout add selection bug

[Manuel R. Ciosici]

In the Keyboard Preferences section, when trying to add a new keyboard layout (either by country selection or by language selection), one cannot skip to the desired country/language by pressing the first letter of the word. The only navigation option is scrolling through the entire list.

Skipping to a section after pressing the word's first key should be implemented. I consider this a usability problem.

Problem encountered in: Ubuntu 8.10, Gnome 2.24.1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's a gtk limitation, there is a similar request on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=567141

[Andy Buckley (andy-insectnation)]

Is this a different kind of drop-down list widget from usual? Most GTK drop-down menus support the "jump to character" behaviour... otherwise we wouldn't expect it. Is it possible to work-around by using the "normal" widget in this panel?