Bug 197882

Summary:	keyboard indicator applet issues
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Component:	gnome-applets	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	simos.bugzilla
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	196561
Bug Blocks:	197822

Description Matthias Clasen 2006-07-06 20:57:22 UTC

a) it has a "Layout" menuitem which brings up an awesome empty window.

b) it has some plugin management gui, but apparently no plugins. I do
not know what need there is for plugins in a keyboard indicator anyway.

Comment 1 Simos Xenitellis 2006-07-15 11:10:46 UTC

These issues have been discussed at the Keyboard discussion, irc log at
http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/KeyboardInputDiscussion

a) Layout should show the current layout (a keyboard with the characters on the
keys). If it does not work, it should be a configuration issue in Fedora

b) Apparently, the Plugins option should be relegated in the dialog box, in a
tab and not be so visible.
In the plugins one can enable functionality such as using flags to display the
current layout. Those plugins are available at gswitchit.sf.net
I think Sergey mentioned he is inclined to move Plugins to a less visible location.

The big issue is (a) however. :)

Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2006-07-22 14:23:56 UTC

unfortunately, a) was not fixed by moving to xkeyboard-config, so we need
to investigate. 

Regarding the flags, we need to patch the plugin stuff out, since we don't 
ship them anyway.

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2006-07-26 16:33:36 UTC

so the layout not being shown is due to XkbGetKeyboard returning NULL.

Comment 4 Kevin E. Martin 2006-07-29 20:10:51 UTC

This sounds like a duplicate of bug #196561, which was an Xkb regression and is
now fixed upstream and in xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-14.fc6.i386.rpm.

Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2006-07-30 15:57:35 UTC

the layout-not-shown part, yes. Keeping this bug open for the kill-the-plugins part.

Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2006-08-04 01:52:22 UTC

fixed in 2.15.90