Re: Language Chooser at Login 3: The Choosening (or: Keyboard Selector)
På Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:53:33 +0200, skrev Christopher James Halse Rogers r...@ubuntu.com: Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be addressed. The problem description here is: You have a multi-user system with multiple keymaps. This could be dvorak/qwerty, or latin/cyrillic is apparently common. Different users can then have passwords using different keymaps, which means that unity-greeter needs to be able to understand this. Either unity-greeter would need to cache each user's keymap and automatically switch keymap for the password field, or use something like the keyboard indicator in the greeter. As a dvorak/qwerty, I see it as a necessity to have a keyboard indicator easily accessible anytime I need to type my password. Remembering what keyboard layouts people use would also be a nice and time-saving feature, but the user _must_ be able to easily figure out and change which layout is used. We have to be careful around this, as a newbie user might not realize what's going on if they suddenly can't log in anymore. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Re: Language Chooser at Login 3: The Choosening (or: Keyboard Selector)
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be addressed. The problem description here is: You have a multi-user system with multiple keymaps. This could be dvorak/qwerty, or latin/cyrillic is apparently common. Different users can then have passwords using different keymaps, which means that unity-greeter needs to be able to understand this. Either unity-greeter would need to cache each user's keymap and automatically switch keymap for the password field, or use something like the keyboard indicator in the greeter. Oh, interesting...I had not thought of this issue before. In a multilingual setup, of course the user must be able to actually select the right keyboard to at least type in his password. I guess the keyboard selector at the login screen is necessary after all... Marc. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
Language Chooser at Login 3: The Choosening (or: Keyboard Selector)
Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector. I don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be addressed. The problem description here is: You have a multi-user system with multiple keymaps. This could be dvorak/qwerty, or latin/cyrillic is apparently common. Different users can then have passwords using different keymaps, which means that unity-greeter needs to be able to understand this. Either unity-greeter would need to cache each user's keymap and automatically switch keymap for the password field, or use something like the keyboard indicator in the greeter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
