Created attachment 165234 [details] Telex is currently not available as a variant for the Vietnamese layout SUMMARY *** Hi. Please consider adding support for the Vietnamese Telex keyboard layout in KDE Plasma's keyboard settings. Telex is the most popular method for typing in Vietnamese. It is the default method for Vietnamse on IOS, Android and Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex_(input_method) *** SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Fedora Linux 39 (Kinoite) KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.6.12-200.fc39.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: Inspiron 3480
Please note Plasma as any other Desktop Environment doesn't allow to add a new layout Variants. To do so, you have change your XKB configuration manually. See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config
(In reply to Andrey from comment #1) > Please note Plasma as any other Desktop Environment doesn't allow to add a > new layout Variants. > To do so, you have change your XKB configuration manually. > > See: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config The other alternative is to ask for the upstream project to add the Variant you need, so others could benefit too: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues Please post an issue link here if you go that way.
(In reply to Andrey from comment #2) > (In reply to Andrey from comment #1) > > Please note Plasma as any other Desktop Environment doesn't allow to add a > > new layout Variants. > > To do so, you have change your XKB configuration manually. > > > > See: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config > The other alternative is to ask for the upstream project to add the Variant > you need, so others could benefit too: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues > > Please post an issue link here if you go that way. Here it is: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/437
😭 The xkeyboard-config maintainers closed the request, stating "it is an input method, not a layout": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/issues/437#note_2431565 I'm not entirely sure what the differences are, but it sounds like an input method is more complicated than a layout. Does this mean Plasma cannot have Vietnamese Telex as an option? Gnome has it. Right now, I'm using fcitx5 to be able to type using Telex, but some applications don't work with it.