Description of problem: * boot, accept fate * enter keyboard, click english and hit '-' key * select chinese and ADD it. OK * enter keyboard, click chinese and hit '-' key * select spanish and ADD it. OK * enter keyboard, click spanish and hit '-' key * select armentian and ADD it. NOT GOOD testing the keyboard will reveal non latin alphabet. No problem, let's go back to english... * enter keyboard, click armenian and hit '-' key Start to type english... Good luck, non latin glyps will be displayed and they will not match anything. How to exit this? (WORKAROUND) hit '+' and just scroll the full list and select a working keyboard. In fact, one can jump directly to Armenian. Discovered by accident. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F18b TC3 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: Se above. Actual results: if Armenian keyboard is selected, switching back the keyboard is not as easy as one might expect. Expected results: Additional info:
So if I understand it correctly, you are hitting the situation when you choose non-latin keyboard and want to get back by opening the Add Layout dialog (either + button or - button when the last layout is in the list) and typing the new layout name? Well, there is nothing we can do about it. The only thing that comes to my mind is something like "Reset to English" button. Also please have a look at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684565
Yeap, the problem is that one cannot type the language name. Luckily it can be selected from the list.
Created attachment 627173 [details] BZ login dialog showing Armenian glyphs after exception in keyboard spoke I got a traceback while testing the keyboard after reading this bug report. My BZ login name and password appear in Armenian glyphs. Login failed ... anaconda 18.16 F18-Beta/TC4/Fedora-18-Beta-TC4-x86_64-DVD.iso
See also: Bug 866320 - BZ login not in Latin glyphs after exception in keyboard spoke
*** Bug 866320 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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