Ubuntu Touch needs way to switch external keyboard layout

[Alexey Balmashnov]

Ubuntu Touch OTA 10.1 on BQ Aquaris M10 FHD

Currently, there is no way (or I could not find one) to switch keyboard layout, when external keyboard is connected to the device. Tried possible "default" combinations like: Alt+Shift, Ctrl+Shift, Ctrl+Space, without luck.

With the help of PaulfraaOSAA on #ubuntu-touch figured out how it is possible too switch (workaround):
One keeps settings with external keyboard layouts open.
When one needs to switch layout of external keyboard, [s]he "just"
- switches to layout settings window
- moves needed layout to top of the list
- switches back to application window and continues typing...

This is... Well... Very very far from usable, especially for non-latin alphabet based languages, like Russian. Please introduce possibility to configure layout switcher and use keyboard to switch layouts.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jonas G. Drange (jonas-drange)]

I agree. Thanks, Alexey. We need to expose the UI for this in System Settings as it is described in the spec [1], but the feature you're talking about needs to be implemented in Mir.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguageAndText#phone

[Lukáš Tinkl (lukas-kde)]

Switching keymaps is possible with the following shortcuts:

Super+Space -> Next keyboard layout
Super+Shift+Space -> Previous keyboard layout

(same as in unity 7)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.