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confusing UI for selecting most-common-variant keyboard layout
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED
Product:
Xfce4-settings
Component:
Keyboard Settings

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Description unhammer+dill 2014-07-13 11:34:10 CEST
I wasted a lot of time trying to figure out how to add the "no" (Norway-Norwegian with dead keys) keyboard layout my list of keyboard layouts, since I couldn't find it in the list under the "Norwegian" category. I found Norwegian without dead keys, Mac-style with and without dead keys, Colemac, Dvorak, but no Norwegian with dead keys. But I knew it was there, since it was the system standard and worked if I simply chose "use system standard" without any other layouts available for switching.

Finally, I noticed I could click the category itself. This did not make sense to me before, since the other layouts are not actually sub-variants of Norwegian (e.g. Northern Saami is not even in the same language family …). 

I think the UI would be a lot less confusing if standard Norwegian got its own line in the sub-category, instead of the user having to discover that you can click the category as well as entries within it.
Comment 1 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-28 22:59:54 CEST
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Bug #11016

Reported by:
unhammer+dill
Reported on: 2014-07-13
Last modified on: 2020-05-28

People

Assignee:
Jérôme Guelfucci
CC List:
3 users

Version

Version:
4.11.0

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