Ubuntu
libgnomekbd package

The keyboard layout icon is empty

Bug #524136 reported by Alkis Georgopoulos on 2010-02-18

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	GNOME Settings Daemon	Unknown	Medium	gnome-bugs #610544
	libgnomekbd (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon

gnome-settings-daemon 2.29.90-0ubuntu1 (Lucid i386)

$ killall gnome-settings-daemon
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 gnome-settings-daemon

Result (OK): I see the new status icon, with [USA] and [Gre] as the images.

$ killall gnome-settings-daemon
$ LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 gnome-settings-daemon

Result (not OK): The status icon is now empty. If I hover my mouse over it, I can see the expected names as tooltips: [ΗΠΑ] and [Ελλάδα].

So I'm guessing that the code that draws the language strings on the status icon is not utf-8 aware.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/lucid/libgnomekbd

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Thanos Lefteris (alefteris) wrote on 2010-02-20:

I can confirm this as well in latest lucid.

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) on 2010-02-20

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote on 2010-03-03:

As mentioned in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610544 by Sergey, the problem can be solved by changing the font in /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/indicator/fontFamily from "Helvetica" to some other font like "Sans" that has a larger unicode coverage.

Please include the fix for Lucid as it's simple and it affects a lot of international users.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-03-03:

the new GNOME version will be in lucid

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
status:	Fix Committed → Triaged

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-03-03:

the change is in upstream git now

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote on 2010-03-03:

Ugh for some reason after today's updates I'm seeing a keyboard icon instead of the layout name.
Please put the layout name back...

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Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote on 2010-03-03:

Alkis that can be changed in settings.
But actually updates shouldtn make settings changes.
Software should be programmed so that updates doesnt affect settings.

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote on 2010-03-03:

Hi Kangarooo, in which settings?

If you're talking about the gconf /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/indicator/showFlags key, that doesn't take effect anymore after today's changes.
The new keyboard icon seems to have replaced all the previous drawing code. It doesn't even get to switch layouts anymore with left click, like it did up until yesterday.

It lost a lot of functionality all of a sudden... please revert that change.

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Jānis Kangarooo (kangarooo) wrote on 2010-03-04:

i understand corectly? u are talking about keyboard layout plugin? if yes then right click it in panel and Properties.

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote on 2010-03-05:

keyboard-layout.png Edit (16.8 KiB, image/png)

Kangarooo, I'm not sure what you mean, but when right clicking the keyboard layout icon, there's no "Properties" menu entry. See the attached picture.
Anyway the change was reverted so everything is OK for now.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2010-03-09

affects:

gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) → libgnomekbd (Ubuntu)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-03-09:

#10

This bug was fixed in the package libgnomekbd - 2.29.92-0ubuntu1

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libgnomekbd (2.29.92-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - GkbdStatus is using gtk/gnome font settings (lp: #513152, #524136)
    - A lot of translations fixed
    - Explicit dbus dependency dropped
  * debian/control.in:
    - dropped dbus dependencies
  * debian/patches/01_requires_private.patch:
    - new version update
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:31:23 +0100