Package: kdebase-bin Version: 4:3.3.2-1sarge1 Severity: normal
I shall describe how to reproduce the bug on a new user account (for which kxkb has never been run). If the user has already made kxkb settings, the screen will look different at step (2). But the bug is always there. (1) start Control Centre --> Regional & Accessibility --> Keyboard Layout (2) The "keyboard layout" module opens with the "layout" tab active. Note that keyboard layouts are not enabled, so most of the tab is greyed out. You can see that the greyed-out defaults are: keyboard model: Generic 104-key PC active layouts: U.S. English (us) [It is debatable whether those are good defaults. It might make more sense to try and get system-wide defaults from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, and only fall back to 104-key (us) if nothing there looks sensible. For example, I have the normal settings for a British keyboard: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "gb" EndSection so on my system a better default would be "Generic 105-key (intl) PC" and "United Kingdom (gb)". Wishlist bug? But let's carry on for now.] (3) click to "enable keyboard layouts"; the main box becomes active (not greyed-out) (4) click on the drop-down arrow for choosing the "keyboard model"; on the drop-down menu, click on "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC" (5) click on "defaults" in the bottom left; the main box is greyed-out again, but the keyboard model now says "pc104". This is already different from the text we saw in step (2). This is a bug. (6) repeat step (3) (7) try to repeat step (4) You will see that the list contains "pc104" at the point where it should say "Generic 105-key (Intl) PC". This is a bug! There is a workaround for this bug. If keyboard model XXXXXX is missing, select instead model YYYYYY. Repeat steps (5)-(7). This time model YYYYYY is missing, so you can reselect XXXXXX. But most users will be confused before they discover the workaround. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages kdebase-bin depends on: ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.2-6.4 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-6sarge1 client library to control the FAM ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 0.5.13-1.0 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Window System event recording an ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]