Bug 467549 - Gnome's System menu contains no entry for changing keyboard layout
Summary: Gnome's System menu contains no entry for changing keyboard layout
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-menus
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-18 12:01 UTC by Răzvan Sandu
Modified: 2008-10-20 17:18 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-10-18 22:26:07 UTC
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Description Răzvan Sandu 2008-10-18 12:01:44 UTC
Description of problem:

Gnome's System menu contains no entry for an utility that changes keyboard layout (system-config-keyboard).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-menus-2.24.0-1.fc10.x86_64
gnome-menus-2.24.0-1.fc10.i386


How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install stock Fedora 10 rawhide and online updates as of October 18, 2008
2. Open a session with Gnome desktop environment
3. Go to System menu -> Administration
  
Actual results:
There is no entry for an utility that allows setting up the keyboard layout.

Expected results:
Gnome menus should contain such an entry. The same is expected in KDE's menus.

Distro should provide standard utilities for changing keyboard layout in both X and text mode (command-line and/or ncurses-based).

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2008-10-18 22:26:07 UTC
System>Preferences>Hardware>Keyboard

Comment 2 Răzvan Sandu 2008-10-20 03:03:18 UTC
Hello,


Thanks A LOT and sorry for my omission !


A few questions still remain:

1. I'm a daily user of Fedora for years and I didn't noticed that the keyboard setting utility is there (System>Preferences>Hardware>Keyboard). Is is wise to bury it so deep in the menus, splitting it from the language setting utility ?

2. Do we have a 100% equivalent in KDE, AND, especially, in text mode ?

What's the *canonical* way an user should set his keyboard, if he runs in default runlevel 3 ? ("Canonical" = the procedure one would write in the formal Red Hat manuals...)

Thanks again,


Regards,
Răzvan

Comment 3 Jakub Jelinek 2008-10-20 17:18:56 UTC
*** Bug 466985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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