Bug 174553

Summary:	KDE keyboard layouts gone (again)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	5	CC:	dgunchev, mharris, rdieter
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Description Mary Ellen Foster 2005-11-29 22:40:50 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #121950 +++

[ I reported the above bug against an FC2 test release. It was triggered by the
switch to Xorg-X11 -- some pathnames changed, and the KDE keyboard layout thing
didn't do the right thing with the new paths. I'm now seeing the identical
symptoms in FC5Test1, and I suspect a similar cause ... see the older bug for a
discussion. ] 

I wanted to switch my keyboard layout in KDE to dvorak, but when I went to make
the change in the control centre (Regional & Accessibility - Keyboard Layout),
there were no layouts to choose from.

Based on the suggestions from the older bug, I tried 
    ln -s /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
and, indeed, the layouts came back, so either KDE is still hard-coding a path or
else something else is causing similar symptoms

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2005-12-01 14:38:36 UTC

Yes, kde is probably still (quasi)hard-coding it.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2005-12-01 14:41:22 UTC

Nevermind, kde (supposedly) now uses the XkbRF_GetNamesProp() API as suggested
by Mike Harris from your previous report.  ???

Comment 3 Mary Ellen Foster 2005-12-01 14:48:38 UTC

Re: Comment #2
Yes, I know, it's weird -- that's why I opened a new bug instead of re-opening
the old one.

Comment 4 Mary Ellen Foster 2006-01-28 14:50:25 UTC

NB: I said in my initial bug repont above that creating a symbolic link made 
the layouts come back. That's only partially true: they came back in the UI, 
but it still didn't appear to work correctly when I actually chose one.

Comment 5 Rex Dieter 2006-01-30 16:13:18 UTC

From what you describe, it appears Mike's fix from bug #121950 doesn't work
anymore.  
(CC'ing Mike): Mike, comment?

Comment 6 Than Ngo 2006-01-30 19:22:49 UTC

This problem has been fixed in kdebase-3.5.1, which will be available in rawhide
soon. Thanks for your report.