#692459 debian installer should show a keyboard layout indicator in text fields

Package:
debian-installer
Source:
debian-installer
Description:
Debian Installer documentation
Submitter:
Praveen A
Date:
2014-08-07 15:57:09 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#692459#5
Date:
2012-11-06 13:00:16 UTC
From:
To:
package: debian-installer
version: 20120930+b1
severity: wishlist

There should be a visible indication of current keyboard layout
selected. Especially when a non-latin language is selected as
installation language and first text field is a password field - there
is no way to know which keyboard you actually have.

Thanks
Praveen
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#692459#10
Date:
2012-11-06 15:35:23 UTC
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reassign 692459 console-setup
thanks

Praveen A, le Tue 06 Nov 2012 18:30:16 +0530, a écrit :

Mmm...

A visible indication on the screen would be hackish at best. Another way
would be to use the scroll lock LED. Are you using the graphical or the
textual installer?  In the latter case, my patch to make the kernel let
userspace choose LEDs for modifiers at will has not yet been integrated,
it'll not be fixable for Wheezy.

Samuel
#692459#19
Date:
2012-11-06 19:19:56 UTC
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Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org):

Here again, I bet Pravi is using the graphical installer and is using
the installer in Malayalam. "grep Last-Translator trunk/packages/po/sublevel1/ml.po" explains why...:-)
#692459#24
Date:
2012-11-09 12:42:25 UTC
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To:
2012/11/6 Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>:

gnome screensaver already had it in lock screen dialogue (but it
seemed to be gone in 3.6). Malayalam is not supported in text mode, so
at least for Malayalam I'm happy with layout indicator in graphical
mode.
#692459#29
Date:
2012-12-27 17:10:14 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

Praveen A, le Fri 09 Nov 2012 18:12:25 +0530, a écrit :
d-i, I've just tested with beta4, the scroll lock LED does light when
switched to the non-latin layout.  Is it also forking for you, or is
there still a bug in that regard?  (support in textmode will come with
my kernel patch).

Samuel
#692459#34
Date:
2012-12-27 17:38:56 UTC
From:
To:
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 27 Dec 2012 18:10:14 +0100, a écrit :

I meant
                                                working
of course :)
#692459#39
Date:
2013-01-21 11:45:35 UTC
From:
To:
Missed copying the bug earlier.



2012/12/27 Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>:

I'm attaching a screenshot of the gnome-screensaver to clarify what I
was expecting.

As for scroll lock indicator, I'm on a Lenovo T400 laptop and Virtual
Box inside it, so I can't see any indicator when layout is not latin.
All I noticed was a warning sign when CAPSLOCK was on, in password
field, though that was not consistent (I tried to turn on and off the
CAPSLOCK, it was just flashing - probably expected as when you
manually switch you know you want to change it).
#692459#44
Date:
2014-08-07 14:02:59 UTC
From:
To:
clone 692459 -1
reassign 692459 debian-installer
retitle -1 use scrolllock led as indicator for non-latin layouts
block -1 by 535997
tags -1 + upstream
forwarded -1 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
thank you

I am reassigning (a clone of) this bug back to debian-installer.  The
submitter wants an indicator showing the active layout as in the
following picture:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=39;filename=layout-indicator.png;att=1;bug=692459

Since some laptops lack ScrollLock led, regardless of the support of
this led by the kernel, something similar definitely will be useful for
the text mode installer too.  Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to
implement this in text mode.

Anton Zinoviev