keyboard layout detection chooses "variant" instead of "macbook" on a Macbook 6.1

[Ghislain Vaillant]

Whilst covering the following test case (http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/testcases/1301/info), I encountered a bug regarding the automatic keyboard layout selection. I am using a Macbook 6.1 with a French keyboard and tried to install the Ubuntu Trusty Final ISO proposed in the test case.

The automatic keyboard layout selector wrongly concludes that I am using a French "variant" layout instead of the French "macbook" one. This has no impact on the letter characters, but special characters such as '-' or '/' are positionned differently.

I would expect the installer to guess the right keyboard layout straight away.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1308908

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]