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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"
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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
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