Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) OS: Linux Installed from: Fedora RPMs Description of problem: IS keyboard in KDE applications is not working. Icelandic characters áéóú are not possible to input with keyboard in gnome. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): qt-4.4.3-8.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. log in use gnome and iceland keyboard 2. start KWrite type á 3. Actual results: ´a Expected results: á Additional info: This works in FC9, and when selecting KDE session when login inn after setting keyboard in KDE. It is ok in unbuntu 8.10 See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468590
I confirm this problem with USA Intl keyboard layout and Ubuntu 08.04. None of the accented characters work with KDE/QT applications.
This is also in fedora Fc11 alfa. qt-4.4.3-16.fc11.x86_64
Now ok in F11 qt-4.5.0-14.fc10.x86_64 but not in F10 qt-4.5.0-14.fc11.x86_64
I still have the problem, but following recommendations on the net, if I run the application (Tora) as root, the problem disappears, suggesting some permission issues. Also, not all Qt based application have this problem. kword and kspread work fine. Tora which I downloaded individually from its website, uses Qt 4.4.0. I believe that kword and kspread use Qt 3.x; these applications come from Ubuntu's repository.
According to the Fedora bug report, this is still reproducible on F11 with SCIM. Note that F11 uses I-Bus by default, not SCIM, this may be why it looks "fixed" for the reporter (note that the Qt build is the exact same one, just the disttag and the buildroot it got compiled in are different).
Oh, by the way, the KDE live CD doesn't install any input methods at all. Flóki Pálsson, what input methods, if any, do/did you have installed on F10? On F11? (We strongly suspect this is a bug with SCIM, as removing SCIM is reported to fix this. That's why I'm focusing on input methods. There's also a bug filed on the SCIM SourceForge project, getting little to no activity.)
Oops, another addendum: The GNOME live CD installs SCIM by default on F10, I-Bus on F11. AFAIK, the installer DVD does the same, at least if "Input Methods" is checked.
If this is a Qt issue, can you clarify what the exact bug is? Does it happen with Qt 4.6? If yes, please use http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/ to report the bug.
Comment #6 >Flóki Pálsson, what input methods, if any No special input method. Just select Icelandic keyboard during install. >, do/did you have installed on F10? On >F11 I am not sure if I understand the question. This was always a clean install off gnome version off fedora. I can not see this problem in F12. This is ok in F11 and F10 now ( as far I remember ) for me. I installed fore example Quanta where the problem was. ( late is better than never )
As I explained, the GNOME spin of Fedora installs input methods by default. Up to F10, this was SCIM, in F11 and newer it's I-Bus. Only SCIM triggers this bug. So this is effectively solved downstream now by switching away from SCIM in Fedora. The SCIM bug probably needs to be fixed in SCIM. It's not a KDE issue in any case (it's either Qt's or SCIM's fault), so I'm closing this bug.