Bug 115359

Summary: keyboard switch/indicator needed in kdm
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Jiri Dluhos <jdluhos>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jfriedl
Version: Beta 4   
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Hardware: Other   
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Description Jiri Dluhos 2005-09-06 08:11:00 UTC 
I think we need a keyboard indicator/switcher in kdm. In Czech language setting,
the initial keymap is Czech, which means that digit keys produce Czech accented
characters instead. If the password contains numbers (which is often the case),
the user can get deeply frustrated by being unable to login with an "obviously
correct" password.

I know it is technically a detail, but it had bit me several times already.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-06 08:42:06 UTC 
I would very much assume czech users know czech keyboards. What is your point?
Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2005-09-06 08:50:07 UTC 
I guess the point is that if you approach a computer for the first time you 
simply don't know the keyboard layout it uses, so its hard to know if you ever 
typed your password correctly.
Comment 3 Jakub Friedl 2005-09-06 09:09:48 UTC 
It is not uncommon to frequently switch between Czech layout and some other
keyboard layout. Czech keyboard is needed for writing Czech text, but for
example for coding it is more comfortable to use the US layout. Such a confusion
is quite common and I think it is pobably similar in many other languages. I
think that the proposed indicator would be very useful.
Comment 4 Jiri Dluhos 2005-09-06 09:26:22 UTC 
Yes, the problem with the Czech keyboard is that it is very suitable for writing
Czech text, but not for any other work. :-)

To make things even more tricky, there are two variants of Czech keyboards
around, with Y and Z keys at various positions. This problem is sometimes
colloquially described in Czech as "ykurvena ceska klavesnice", which could be
translated as "the bloodz stupid Cyech kezboard" :-)
Comment 5 Dirk Mueller 2006-05-04 13:15:28 UTC 
FATE entry?
Comment 7 Dirk Mueller 2007-04-20 09:56:49 UTC 
FATE 300345