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gnome-settings-daemon package

In Gnome Classic, keyboard layout indicator shows static keyboard icon, not layout

Bug #883698 reported by Bob Bib
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Bug Description

Keyboard indicator doesn't show the current keyboard layout in Ubuntu 11.10 running GNOME 3 Classic (fallback) mode.
It shows only a keyboard icon; when clicked, it shows layout selection menu; keyboard layout switching shortcuts are working too, but I need to guess the current layout by typing, so this indicator is almost useless now.

In Unity it shows a keyboard icon with language code near it if you have more than one keyboard layout, but this is not a case for GNOME 3 Classic (fallback) mode.

As you can see, similar things had happened before in Ubuntu 10.04 (bug #531173) and 11.04 (bug #826719).

See original description
Tags: oneiric
Bob Bib (bobbib)
description: updated
summary: - keyboard layout indicator shows keyboard icon, not layout
+ keyboard layout indicator shows static keyboard icon, not layout
description: updated
Bob Bib (bobbib)
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
Bob Bib (bobbib)
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : Re: keyboard layout indicator shows static keyboard icon, not layout

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
summary: - keyboard layout indicator shows static keyboard icon, not layout
+ In Gnome Classic, keyboard layout indicator shows static keyboard icon,
+ not layout
Bob Bib (bobbib)
tags: added: oneiric
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Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote :

Seems to be fixed in current development release (Precise Beta 1).

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Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote :

... but only in clean installation and not on my experimentally upgraded Ubuntu (?)

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Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote :

Problem seems to be fixed in the current development release (Precise Beta 1):
1) if you have only a "Notification Area" applet, it shows just a keyboard icon;
2) if you add the "Indicator Applet Complete", it'll show a keyboard icon with the name of the current layout (2-letter, e. g. "en").

Bob Bib (bobbib)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in ubuntu-indicator-mods:
status: New → Fix Released
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Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote :

Fix seen with: indicator-applet-complete 0.4.91-0ubuntu1

(Probably it was fixed with release of indicator-applet 0.4.90-0ubuntu1 in Precise).

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Bob Bib (bobbib) wrote :

Some more investigation details.
In Oneiric (11.10) there's no indicator-applet, so that "weak" keyboard indicator is provided by "Notification Area" applet.
Notification area seems to be provided by "gnome-panel" package ("libnotification-area-applet.so" shared library):
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/i386/gnome-panel/filelist

Therefore, this bug report had a little incorrect target package.

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