Bug 1158370 - list major common keyboard layouts first
Summary: list major common keyboard layouts first
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 1300147 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1626901
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-29 08:52 UTC by Jens Petersen
Modified: 2021-04-14 16:47 UTC (History)
15 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-34.5-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
: 1626901 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-04-14 16:47:40 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jens Petersen 2014-10-29 08:52:32 UTC
Description of problem:
Anaconda lists a *lot* of keyboard layouts: eg try searching for US. :)
I think it would be better to do a UI more like gnome-initial-setup
which shows the most common keyboard layouts first like:
US, JP, RU, DE, FR, GB, ES, IT, BR, etc.

There could also be a "Show more layouts" checkbox
to list more obscure layouts, but at least listing
the major common ones first would improve the UX
of international keyboard users.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run anaconda in Japan/ese with US keyboard
2. Try to find US keyboard layout (using JP layout).

Actual results:
Quite hard to find US or other layouts.

Expected results:
Easy enough to find US layout.

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Comment 2 Pravin Satpute 2015-11-25 12:02:25 UTC
Is this issue fixed?
If not lets move to Fedora 23

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Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2015-12-02 06:17:31 UTC
Re-opening I still think this is quite relevant for improving the installer UX for global users.

Comment 5 David Shea 2015-12-02 19:13:01 UTC
How do you suggest we determine what keyboard layouts are the most common?

Comment 6 David Shea 2016-01-28 15:03:28 UTC
*** Bug 1300147 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jens Petersen 2016-06-14 02:36:19 UTC
I think we can come up with an initial list and have it reviewed by
Fedora developers and community.

I feel the current UX is suboptimal.

At the very least US layout to be listed very visibly to most users,
since it is the most common and important globally.

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 11:16:06 UTC
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Comment 9 Jens Petersen 2016-11-28 07:15:13 UTC
I still feel this is pretty low-hanging fruit and would be a good UX improvement - maybe i18n could help.

Comment 10 Fedora End Of Life 2017-02-28 09:38:19 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 26 development cycle.
Changing version to '26'.

Comment 11 Jens Petersen 2018-01-03 08:26:00 UTC
I still feel this is a good RFE and would improve the installer UX
for non-US users.

Comment 12 Sundeep Anand 2020-08-14 12:00:34 UTC
Please refer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039185#c43

Started a thread for broader discussion: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XV7VWD64HIB5N7GIZ53DBJCYKYDDHSWQ/

PR w.r.t Step2: https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/2788

Vendula, Jiri how do you feel about the approach?

Comment 13 Vendula Poncova 2020-09-03 13:59:10 UTC
Step 2 looks good to me. Thank you for working on this!

Comment 14 Pravin Satpute 2020-09-04 05:22:15 UTC
This is really a good feature. Thanks Sundeep for looking into it. I hope, this will be available from next release :)

Comment 16 Martin Kolman 2021-04-14 16:47:40 UTC
Reached Rawhide before the F34 branching, so both F34 & F35 should have the fix. :)


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