Comment 1 for bug 341879

Can we just go with what's done in Ubiquity? I.e. you get a radio button with "Suggested keyboard layout" and the big list greyed out, so you only have to give it any attention if you genuinely have a different keymap.

We've tried inferring the keyboard layout from language and country before (including automatic selection), and it never works. There's always somebody (often, lots of people) who moved to that country from somewhere else and took their computer with them, or bought it abroad, or got given it by a friend, or something, and you really do want the keyboard layout to match what's engraved on the keys rather than what the over-clever operating system thinks you ought to be using. Every one of those keyboard layouts is there because somebody uses it. The only thing I can think of would be to have a "Show me all keyboard layouts" checkbox or something; I'm concerned that the data would be very hard to get right.

Dead keys is something that will probably be a bit more familiar to non-English keyboard users, where the notion of a key you have to press before another key in order to get a diacritic (e.g. ' then a -> á) is a bit more familiar. I am wary about changing this from a English-centric point of view.