#368 Anaconda Web UI requirement: Ability to switch keyboard layouts during installation
Closed: Fixed a year ago by aday. Opened a year ago by jkonecny.

Based on these two requirements https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/362#comment-847926:

  • Ability to switch keyboard layouts during installation?

Our proposal:

Anaconda team would like to leave keyboard layout selection and specification on SIG for Live system. However, to avoid confusion between Live and Anaconda settings we would not provide UI in Anaconda.

Instead we would add install task that would copy the current Live configuration to the resulting system. This would be extensible for other spins to implement their support.
Anaconda might show the configuration in the review screen.

Questions:

  • Is this a feasible solution for SIG?

Yes, this solution sounds good.

The WG discussed this issue during last week's meeting (2 May 2023).

I think that the main concern was how to support users who use input methods, and who may also need a standard keyboard layout for inputting simple latin characters. You could have a situation where someone selects an input method like Anthy in the live session and then needs to input plain latin characters for disk configuration, or later for user creation.

We didn't come up with a concrete plan during the meeting, though we did agree that Anaconda should use all configured input sources and not just the default.

Adding the ability to configure two keyboard layouts in gnome-initial-setup might also be a step in the right direction.

This issue is being worked on here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-initial-setup/-/merge_requests/200

We'll keep it open to track implementation with F39 being the target.

Metadata Update from @aday:
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 39

a year ago

Metadata Update from @aday:
- Issue assigned to catanzaro

a year ago

I think that we answered the question that was asked in this issue - closing.

Metadata Update from @aday:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

a year ago

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