Bug 267376

Summary:	One can no longer configure both the keyboard Flag and the Label
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	kcm_keyboard_layout	Assignee:	Andriy Rysin <arysin>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	1i5t5.duncan, kde-2011.08
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Dotan Cohen 2011-03-01 12:41:03 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

In KDE 4.0 - 4.4 one could show the keyboard Label over the keyboard Flag. This is great for users who have multiple keyboard layouts in each language. For instance, I have a Hebrew layout and two English layouts: US and Dvorak. In KDE 4.4 I both US and Dvorak used the US flag, but they had the letters US or D superimposed.

However, now the System Settings dialogue uses a radiobox to select _either_ Flag or Label. Please change this radiobox back into checkboxes so that we can configure both.

Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Duncan 2011-03-01 13:24:58 UTC

FWIW, this question/request was first asked on the kde-general list.  I don't do but one layout here but checking the 4.6 settings I spotted the radio-buttons and said that suggested the change to single-choice-only must have been deliberate.  I further suggested a bug explaining what he did there, that the flag and label conveyed to him different information and thus he had a use for both (which he did above).  Here's the thread, of course now with a post linking back here so this comment now completes the two-way-reference.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.general/24154

Thanks you and others for kde. =:^)

Comment 2 Andriy Rysin 2011-03-01 13:50:35 UTC

This is a duplicate of 249121. In general the solution is to "show text" and changing layout label if you use same layout multiple times.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 249121 ***

Comment 3 Dotan Cohen 2011-03-01 13:57:44 UTC

Thanks, Andriy. I miss the old bugzilla with it's real search. This is not the first dupe I've filed since the change.

By the way, your suggestion is not a "solution" but rather saying: Just get used to it.

Comment 4 Andriy Rysin 2011-03-01 14:40:07 UTC

Well, it's not about changing radiobutton to checkbox, it's about painting the text over the flag right. And I'll take a patch which does it *right* any time.

Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2011-03-01 14:45:22 UTC

> Well, it's not about changing radiobutton to checkbox, it's about
> painting the text over the flag right.

Right, that's important! I did not realise that the previous implementation had any trouble.


> And I'll take a patch which does it *right* any time.

What was wrong with the previous implementation? Was it only for corner-cases?

I know that bugzilla is not a forum, should I ask you that question in private mail? I am now looking for GSoC projects to work on and I suppose that this could be something.