| Summary: | layout filter unreliable | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | michiel.scheffer <michiel.scheffer> |
| Component: | kcm_keyboard | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | butirsky, duha.bugs, grahamperrin, kde, kdedev, natalie_clarius, nate, sitter |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | regression, usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 6.4.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
The way the current module deals with filtering is super messy. It basically disqualifies all layouts that are a variant (such as the dead keys layouts). Unfortunately fixing this is a bit non-trivial because there are also performance problems and relevance problems if this filter was not in place. e.g. searching for "english" would yield half the world's layouts because they have english variants. Most relevant line in the current code https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/blob/44c7251cd00a6f6ad955f8e60e5ae23c3afb7121/kcms/keyboard/ui/LayoutDialog.qml#L61 Also for future reference the LayoutSearchModel is essentially no-op from a filter perspective https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/blob/master/kcms/keyboard/layoutsearchmodel.cpp#L59 *** Bug 510536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Regression; not present in the following environment on Kubuntu 25.04: - KDE Plasma 6.3.4 - KDE Frameworks 6.12.0 - Qt 6.8.3 Also, for discoverability/search purposes: add layout uk |
SUMMARY systemsettings >> keyboard >> keyboard >> layouts. (kcm_keyboard) The auto filter algorithm for finding (while typing) certain keyboard layouts filters results erroneously, while when manually scrolling through all options, and thus bypassing the auto filter, it works fine. In my case I was looking for: "English (US)" --- "English (US, intl., with dead keys)" STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Select a (the) Generic 105 - Key PC model (or any other) 2. Enable 'layouts'. Choose 'Add' 3. Start typing in the new pop-up search widget OBSERVED RESULT / EXPECTED RESULT I tried various combinations, such as : 'en', 'us', 'int', 'dead', 'dutch', etctetc, yet "English (US, intl., with dead keys)" could not be found. On dozens of earlier occasions, this never proved to be an issue. I went through extensive locale - debugging / reconfiguration to see if that would help. Which it didn't. Then after quite a while, when I stumbled upon my preciously sought after layout after all, albeit ONLY when thumbing/scrolling through the list. TL;DR: any typed combo like: 'en', 'us', 'int', 'dead', 'dutch', etctetc, actually filters out the layout in question. When you manually scroll (left column) to where (English (US)) it is supposed to be (right column) and indeed select (English (US)) (left column), it is there.. but as soon as you start typing in the search bar, it is gone. Also tested with a new, clean user (empty homedir), same result. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel: 6.15.3-zen1-1.1-zen KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Packages: 1369 (pacman) Shell: bash 5.2.37 Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: Plasma 6.4.1 WM: KWin Graphics Platform: X11 Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3] Icons: BeautyLine [GTK2/3] Terminal: yakuake Terminal Font: FiraCodeNF 11 CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H (20) @ 4.600GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] Memory: 4410MiB / 15603MiB ADDITIONAL INFORMATION # cat /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en_US:en LC_COLLATE=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=nl_NL.UTF-8 LC_TIME=nl_NL.UTF-8 # locale-gen # localectl set-keymap us # localectl set-x11-keymap us us us-intl $ rm -f $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/plasma-localerc $ for i in {kde,plasma}; do pacman -Qqen | grep $i; done kde-cli-tools plasma-desktop kde-gtk-config kdeconnect kdecoration kdenlive kdeplasma-addons polkit-kde-agent xdg-desktop-portal-kde kdeplasma-addons libplasma plasma-activities plasma-activities-stats plasma-browser-integration plasma-disks plasma-firewall plasma-integration plasma-nm plasma-pa plasma-sdk plasma-thunderbolt plasma-vault plasma-wayland-protocols plasma-welcome plasma-workspace plasma-workspace-wallpapers plasma-x11-session plasma5support plasma-systemmonitor