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I haven't seen Ubiquity's 'I'm fine with a default keyboard layout' checkbox. Is that new in Jaunty? I'll check.
I agree that automatically choosing it is very hard. Too hard to assume we can get right. Though, there is a UI for changing it once the user is logged in, as a fallback. So if we get something wrong, the user isn't 100% screwed, but yeah, I don't want to rely on the user finding that.
As for 'dead' keys, like Loye says, as an English speaker, 'compose keys' at least make some sense to me (oh, yeah, you're 'composing' one key from two). I don't know what 'dead' is translated to for other languages, but maybe translators would understand 'compose' better.
For that matter, it doesn't even look like layout names are translated (is that true? It doesn't seem to be for me...). That would be a big help. I don't know how we expect someone that doesn't speak English to find the right layout at all. This page just becomes a big scary widget for them if it's all in English.
And the other point I brought up, 104/105/106 keys... I don't know the technical details of what that changes. Does it just enable more keys? Does it hurt to tell Ubuntu I have 106 when I only have 104? I mean, the 2 keys just never get hit, right? Could we not ask, and just assume the larger set of keys? I assume the answer is no.
Maybe one way of making it less confusing would be to allow showing layout pictures, like the GNOME preference app does. Let the user press a button to see if it matches what they have.
I'm just brainstorming. :)