Saucy 3.10, up to date (2013-11-21), with Gnome 3.8. Thinkpads, Acers. I am a British English user, and have all my locales set to en_GB.UTF-8. I have a UK keyboard. I never use US English for typing (or thinking :-).
I work in Unicode all the time, and use Ibus and m17n, with four or five m17n input methods (IM) available all the time. Before Saucy It used to be possible to a) switch off m17n/ibus handling, so the native "locale" keyboard was active b) switch between m17n IMs so that the keys they specifically defined worked, and those that were not defined in the m17n map defaulted to the native locale map. E.g., shift+3 would give the UK pound sign all the time, even when typing Sanskrit or Greek. In Saucy, a) one can't turn off ibus handling, apparently. But the native locale appears as the first item in the ibus menu. In my case it's "English (UK)". Okay: one has to retrain one's fingers, but it's manageable. b) When I change to one of the m17n-defined IMs, the background default keyboard switches to English (US). So shift+3 gives #. That is unacceptable. Definitely a bug. I've ripped out the US locale completely from my machine (http://askubuntu.com/questions/58191/how-can-i-uninstall-a-locale-via- command-line, and localepurge), but it makes no difference. Ibus is still fetching the US keyboard from some unknown place. So, how to make ibus use the locale to set the default "background" keyboard for all non-defined keys? ** Attachment added: "m17n latn-pre keyboard loaded on a UK system, but defaulting to English (US) keyboard" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1235991/+attachment/3913900/+files/Screenshot%20from%202013-11-21%2009%3A57%3A13.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ibus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1235991 Title: Can't “use system keyboard layout” in Saucy Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In Saucy, ibus becomes more tightly integrated with the desktop. Configuring it via ibus-setup doesn't affect the instance run by ubuntu. And with the new system, there's no way to replicate the behaviour of the old “use system keyboard layout” option. When I use, for example, pinyin (Chinese) or anthy (Japanese), I want to type the letters in dvorak. I've been doing that for years, and now in Saucy it's impossible. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1235991/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
