LanguageSelectorImprovements

Revision 1 as of 2005-12-09 17:14:17

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Summary

Language selector should offer a way to set the system-wide keyboard as well.

Rationale

Once the system is installed it's not easy to setup a system wide default keyboard (e.g. for gdm).

Use cases

Bob switched to dvorak and wants to have this layout system-wide.

Scope

Langauage selector needs to be modified.

Design

Key ideas:

  • The default layout should be automatically suggested from the selected language.
  • relationship between language and layout
  • simple list of those relationships to choose default
  • list includes only what is installed, rather than the entire set of languages (and you click 'add...' to install more)
  • unsure if there's a standard place to store the selection of relationships

Example how others do it: ["http://www.muhammadanism.org/Unicode/text_services_input_languages_xp.gif"]

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion