Please add an explanation to Finnish "Kotoistus" keyboard in installer

Bug #175071 reported by era
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xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

In the installer, when you pick Finnish for your keyboard layout, you are presented with a list of alternatives:

 Finland
 Finland - Eliminate dead keys
 Finland - Kotoistus
 Finland - Macintosh
 Finland - Northern Saami

All of these except "Kotoistus" are likely understandable to a majority of the target audience. However, the "Kotoistus" layout was unfamiliar to me. It turns out that this is a project to replace the traditional (originally Swedish SIS) standard keyboard layout with a modernized, multilingual layout -- essentially backwards-compatible, but augmented to cater for the requirements of local minority languages, as well as enabling communications in most Latin-based European writing systems.

Judging from their web pages at http://www.csc.fi/sivut/kotoistus/nappaimisto_htm (bilingual page -- scroll down for English version) and in particular the overview in http://www.csc.fi/sivut/kotoistus/fi_kbspec_en_luonnos06.pdf (in English) this is still a work in progress, but they wish for the layout to be widely tested in practice in order to eventually freeze the specification.

The PDF suggests "Nordic International" as a good name for the proposed layout; perhaps this could be added to the keyboard picker list (i.e. change "Finland - Kotoistus" to "Finland - Kotoistus (Nordic International)".

Sorry if ubiquity is the wrong place for this bug.

Changed in ubiquity:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in ubiquity:
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

We just call them whatever xkeyboard-config calls them.

Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

I couldn't find a file where to change that.. and looking at the changelog suggests that Kotoistus is now the default. So, closing the bug as it's fixed in hardy when I upload the new version.

Changed in xkeyboard-config:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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