Bugzilla – Bug 115359
keyboard switch/indicator needed in kdm
Last modified: 2007-07-12 10:17:22 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.
I would very much assume czech users know czech keyboards. What is your point?
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.
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.
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" :-)
FATE entry?
FATE 300345