Ubuntu
xkeyboard-config package

Linguistic representation for Indian Languages Regional & Language - System Settings

Bug #137766 reported by ஆமாச்சு
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
KDE Base
Won't Fix
Wishlist
xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Briefly:

India is a country with 18 officially recognized languages each being spoken by millions of people. Each language of it need unique representation in "Keyboard Layout" of "Regional & Language - System Settings"

Steps to notice the problem:

1) Kubuntu Feisty (Upgrade from Kubuntu Edgy)
2) KMenu --> System Settings --> Regional & Language --> Keyboard Layout
3) Under Available Layouts --> India

Now the problem is one cannot add the Indian Languages separately. Few Indian Languages are Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada each being millions of people.

The only option available is choose India Add to Active Layouts & Choose the Layout variant.

Want to add another language, again choose India Add to Active Layouts & Choose the Layout variant.

Now in the Layout variant field all languages of India are messed up and a beginner will get confused easily as to choose which layout for his home language.

Now linguistic representation need to be given here.

This need to be and I myself is willing to take up the responsibility. I am looking forward to a mentor.

Tags: kubuntu
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ஆமாச்சு (amachu) wrote :
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

The request needs to be forwarded upstream to bugs.kde.org.

Changed in kdebase:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in kdebase:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Changed in kdebase-workspace:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in kdebase:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
affects: kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu) → xorg (Ubuntu)
Changed in xorg (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
tags: added: kubuntu
affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
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Changed in kdebase:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Simos Xenitellis  (simosx) wrote :

As noted by Karunakar in http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171767
this is an issue with conventions at the xkeyboard-config project.
The convention is to use country-based layouts. That is, in the India layout file you add the layouts for all Indian languages.
There is an exception for languages such as Arabic which is spoken in more than a dozen countries; in this case there is an Arabic layout file.

To change the files from country-specific to language-specific would require to start again the discussion.

However, if you try Ubuntu 10.04, you will notice that the keyboard settings offer the option to search for a layout according to the language. The data files are still country-specific, though now you have the option to search per language.

Therefore, what you can do is bring the subject again to the KDE team to emulate the functionality found in GNOME for this.

I'll mark this report as completed. If you have any questions, feel free to ask again.

Changed in xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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Changed in kdebase:
status: Fix Released → Won't Fix
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Changed in kdebase:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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