no latin layout when booting live cd with Greek settings

I confirm this bug. It can be reproduced by booting hardy alpha 6 live desktop cd and selecting Greek/"Ελληνικά", from the F2 menu. It is rather frustrating to not be able to switch to latin keyboard, as one can not use terminal web browser and other apps that need latin input, unless he add the English layout from keyboard preferences.

Urgh. I think this is actually gfxboot-theme-ubuntu's fault. It passes console-setup/layoutcode=gr, which causes casper to fill in XKBLAYOUT=gr; for speed reasons, console-setup.config never actually gets run during live CD boot.

gfxboot-theme-ubuntu needs to get a whole lot smarter about non-Latin keymaps.

This bug was fixed in the package gfxboot-theme-ubuntu - 0.5.9

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gfxboot-theme-ubuntu (0.5.9) hardy; urgency=low

  * Really update for Kurdish default layout change, and shorten Kurdish
    layout description to avoid overflow.
  * No longer consider Japanese a non-Latin keymap; the default variant
    (basic) is Latin.
  * Adjust console-setup/layoutcode and (perhaps) console-setup/variantcode
    when booting with a non-Latin keymap (LP: #200803).
  * Ensure that boot parameters are displayed immediately after pressing F6
    (LP: #198536).
  * Update translations from Launchpad. Among many other things, this
    completes the French translation (LP: #193901).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:51:24 +0000

Just tested with hardy 11 Mar 2008 desktop i386 daily build. The bug has been fixed. When selecting Greek/Ελληνικά from boot menu the keyboard layout is set to en-US and SCIM is not loaded. Also Greek keyboard layout is pre-added at Keyboard Preferences. Two more things left to be done (if possible):

1. Layout Switching to be preconfigured at Alt+Shift. Now user cannot switch to greek layout, although it is listed in keyboard preferences, unless he set alt+shift for layout switching through keyboard preferences, or add the keyboard layout indicator applet at panel.

2. The pre-added layout for greek to be greek-extended instead of plain greek, so the user can type in the euro "€" symbol when in greek layout.

Konstantinos: Thanks. Please file separate bugs about these problems; 1) belongs on casper due to the hacky way it sets up the keyboard, and 2) belongs on console-setup.