keyboard indicator doesn't use number to differenciate variants

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

In Karmic and previous Ubuntu versions the keyboard indicator applet would show a subscript number for variants of same-language keyboards when cycling through them.

For example having both USA and USA (Alternative International - former us_intl) would show USA and USA(2).

Now it only shows USA no matter which one is active. Hovering over with the mouse cursor shows the appropriate layout is active, but there is no visual clue about it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 24 14:13:09 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.29.92-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

I've also added USA LatinAmerican and it also displays as "USA" when in Karmic it displays as LAm.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the keyboard indicator is not an application indicator but a notification icon which is an upstream change

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been sent to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613853

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is a libgnomekbd one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

grrrr launchpad and buggy triaging tools, sorry for the reassigning noise...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug has been fixed upstream now

[Mark Rowan (mark-tamias)]

This bug is still present in libgnomekbd4 version 2.30.0-0ubuntu2

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in the maverick version now

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted libgnomekbd into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could somebody test the upgrade? the rendering changed slightly there but upstream argue the current way is using the right api and it tradding rendering issues for an another set, they also improved the code and fixed crasher issues and recommend we use the upgrade. out of the rendering different the indicator works correctly there for over a week in the notification area and gnome-screensaver unlock dialog

[Mark Rowan (mark-tamias)]

Yes, I've tested it and it's working. The rendering is different for me too, but I've not had a problem after using it for a week.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Conversely, I use two different layouts (de, us) which already had intelligible names before. The rendering changed slightly, but otherwise it's still working.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Tested and works, however this now highlight another problem: the keyboard-shortcut to switch layouts only cycle once through choices. I'll open/chase another bug.

If there's a way to change the rendering (font, size, color) of the indicator I'd like to know about it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libgnomekbd - 2.30.1-0ubuntu1

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libgnomekbd (2.30.1-0ubuntu1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - "keyboard indicator doesn't use number to differenciate variants"
      is fixed in thi version (lp: #546240)
  * debian/patches/90_git_default_value.patch:
    - the change is in the new version
  * debian/patches/02_layout_crash.patch:
    - upstream change to fix a crasher caused by an unitialized value.
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:09:23 +0200

[Peter Belew (peterbe)]

I just noticed today that this bug has come back in 11.04 natty (alpha1 with updates through today). I sometimes use as many as 4 alternate US layouts, so this is a real inconvenience.