Bug 155681

Summary: keyboard layout variant does not lists all available variants
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Stéphane Magnenat <stephane>
Component: kcm_keyboard_layoutAssignee: Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: finex, fpuddu
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Stéphane Magnenat 2008-01-13 20:23:16 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 4.0.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

The KDE 4 Keyboard Layout settings does not shows all available keyboard layout variant, while KDE 3 does. Indeed, I'm using a customized dvorak layout, named dvorak-intl but it is not shown in the drop-list.
Comment 1 Alexey Charkov 2008-07-10 19:54:43 UTC 
I confirm this. There is no "winkeys" variant for Russian layout, which is the one used on all modern Russian keyboards (not the default one: they differ, in particular, in the location of the comma and the dot). This is very inconvenient and should probably be fixed, as it makes the keyboard_layout module pretty much useless in some cases that it is intended for.
Comment 2 Fabio Puddu 2008-11-28 22:09:30 UTC 
I confirm this too: after adding a custom  layout variant in /usr/share/X11/xkb/it this variant is not shown in the drop list in the system setting control 
Ubuntu Intrepid w/ KDE4.1.3
Comment 3 Andriy Rysin 2010-04-29 18:35:56 UTC 
Newer versions use the xml rule file specification file.
You'll need to add the description of your variant in base.xml or evdev.xml (based on what your rules are configured to be read from)