https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509455
Bug ID: 509455
Summary: RFE: Enable keyboard layout preview when symbols file
is not in '/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols'
Classification: Applications
Product: systemsettings
Version First 6.4.4
Reported In:
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_keyboard
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: pg_for...@runbox.com
CC: butir...@gmail.com, duha.b...@gmail.com,
natalie_clar...@yahoo.de
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
When a custom keyboard layout is set up, and its symbols file is not located in
'/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols' but instead is in one of the other valid
directories (see
https://xkbcommon.org/doc/current/user-configuration.html#user-config-locations),
no layout preview is available.
This is known behavior (the error message explicitly says "Previewing layouts
that are defined outside your systems xkb directory is not supported and will
also trigger this message."
However, it would be good to fix this and allow a preview when the symbols file
is located in one of the other valid directories.
Particularly, users of "immutable" distros (such as KDE Linux) where /usr is
read-only have no way of creating a custom keyboard layout that supports the
preview functionality.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a custom keyboard layout whose files are stored under (for example)
~/.config/xkb/
2. In the Plasma System Settings app (Keyboard section), add the layout to the
user's available layouts
3. Still in the System Settings app, click the three-dot menu at the right-hand
side of the row for that layout, and select "Preview"
OBSERVED RESULT
In the preview window, no preview is shown, with a message "The keyboard
geometry failed to load. [...] Previewing layouts that are defined outside your
systems xkb directory is not supported and will also trigger this message"
EXPECTED RESULT
A valid preview should be shown.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
In tastenbrett's main.cpp, the 'findXkbRulesFile()' method seems to be
hardcoded to examine only a single directory.
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