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
