On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 17:18 -0500, pmkellly(a)frontier.com wrote:
The topic came up in our meeting today that seemed to be a problem
with
Japanese jeyboards (kana kanji) working in F32. I think I must have
initially misunderstood the issue. Apparently the observed problem was
that when in the GCC under Region & Language the Japanese keyboard
option "Kana Kanji" is selected that a keyboard graphic is not displayed
when the eye icon is clicked. I thought the problem was more general.
I tested the Kana Kanji option with both my western qwerty keyboard and
with my japanese keyboard and both worked fine to write a document in
Japanese in LibriWriter. As I thought about it, I think I understand
that this graphic is missing for a good reason.
This particular keyboard interface (kana kanji) is set up to work with
many keyboards it will work fine with a western qwerty keyboard. I will
spare you the details. Also keyboards that have Japanese kana printed on
the keys come in at least a couple physical configurations and there is
a lot printed on the keys (more than one level of "shift". Having a
graphic is just not practical since on one graphic would be representative.
I don't think this is a bug.
That's more or less what I said in the meeting, but on digging into it
this morning, I figured there really is a bug here. In fact there are
two bugs.
Indeed you can't really show a graphic of an input method - but in that
case, the 'show layout' button *shouldn't be there at all* for list
entries that are input methods. Don't show a button that can't do
anything sensible. That's
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/849 .
Also, when you click on it, a crash happens. That's also a bug, and
it's
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnomekbd/issues/1 .
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