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Please add the keyboard selector applet into the panel by default when a non-English language has been selected from the installation or when a non-English language is the default locale in the system. Currently our users are having problems after the installation, trying to understand how to switch languages. It would be nice if the indicator in the panel was there once they logged in for the first time, they'd be able to start right away. In addition, new users find it very hard to add the keyboard selector, since they aren't aware of the procedure (right-click, add to panel, etc..). Thank you
It would also be nice if this happened in FC6, since we plan on giving it away on DVD.
Should this particular request (panel keyboard language indicator) be reported upstream to GNOME? Nevertheless, Fedora could implement the keyboard switching by default through `xorg.conf`. This is important because greek users are used to use Alt-Shift for this purpose and many first-time users don't know how to add the language indicator on the panel. Furthermore, if we add the xorg way nevertheless, Anaconda could use it so that users would be able to write non-english characters during the installation process.
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This is not a bug but a request for enhancement. It is still valid. I think that the most frequntly asked question by Greek users is how to add Greek keyboard to GNOME desktop. It will be nice if installation takes care of it.
is it still a frequent question now that users can select a keyboard layout at the login screen?
well, i saw the new keyboard selector at login. This was a new disaster :) see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469761 Any way, what changes now? You select Greek keyboard at login and by doing this you cant even login... If you decide to login at last, you select US keyboard. I ve done this way and i have again to set keyboard applet from scratch adding greek keyboard etc Now is even missing xorg.conf line (actually their is no xorg.conf at all) for Greek keyboard, so the usual layout combination does not work. Summary: Situation is even worst today ;)
According to bug 492540 keyboard layout chooser at login is not intended to configure complex layouts. It would be better to have keyboard applet by default, otherwise users in many cases are unable to switch layouts.
In F13, the keyboard applet has been converted to a statusicon that will show up automatically if more than one layout is configured.
I tried F13 alpha Livecd and the only "visible" way to change layout is to logout from my account change keyboard layout at gdm login screen and login again. Am i missing something?