Bug 2453216 - plasma-setup Keyboard Layout page pre-selection is broken - always shows English (US) if that is the system language, otherwise shows nothing
Summary: plasma-setup Keyboard Layout page pre-selection is broken - always shows Engl...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: plasma-setup
Version: 44
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Neal Gompa
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Blocks: F44FinalBlocker, FinalBlocker
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Reported: 2026-03-30 21:50 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2026-03-31 06:37 UTC (History)
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Description Adam Williamson 2026-03-30 21:50:17 UTC
This is a downstream report of https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-setup/-/issues/71 for blocker purposes.

The pre-selection on the Keyboard Layout page of plasma-setup is broken in a couple of ways.

1. If the system language is not English (US) it seems to show no layout pre-selected at all, although there *is* a layout configured. For instance, if you install in Russian, the installer will default to configuring English (US) as the primary layout and Russian as a secondary layout, which is correct. During plasma-setup, only English (US) seems to be usable, but if you click through the Keyboard Layout page without configuring anything, the installed system will have the correct en,ru configuration. Yet the Keyboard Layout page does not show *any* layout as selected when it appears.

2. If the system language is English (US) it seems to always pre-select the English (US) layout even if that is not, in fact, the currently-configured layout. To reproduce, install from the KDE live with the system language set to English (US) but the keyboard layout set to French (alt). Click through the first page of plasma-setup, which shows the system language as English (US). When you reach the "Keyboard Layout" page of plasma-setup it will have the English (US) keyboard layout pre-selected, but if you type something in the search box, you can see that the French (alt.) layout is actually active (i.e. if you hit the 'q' key on a US English keyboard it will type an 'a').

Proposing as a Final blocker per https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Final_Release_Criteria#Keyboard_layout_configuration "If a particular keyboard layout has been configured for the system, that keyboard layout must be used: ... In the "initial setup" utility (if applicable)", though this doesn't quite match - it's about what the initial setup utility *indicates* rather than what is actually *used*. But this is part of splitting up https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448283 , so proposing it so we can consider all aspects of how this is currently broken.


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