Language Chooser at Login 3: The Choosening (or: Keyboard Selector)

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 15:53 -0500, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> Rovanion in #ubuntu-devel brought to me a problem that's related to the
> lack of language selector - we also don't have a keyboard selector.  I
> don't think I've seen this discussed before, and I think it should be
> addressed.
> 
> The problem description here is:
> You have a multi-user system with multiple keymaps.  This could be
> dvorak/qwerty, or latin/cyrillic is apparently common.  Different users
> can then have passwords using different keymaps, which means that
> unity-greeter needs to be able to understand this.
> 
> Either unity-greeter would need to cache each user's keymap and
> automatically switch keymap for the password field, or use something
> like the keyboard indicator in the greeter.

Oh, interesting...I had not thought of this issue before. In a
multilingual setup, of course the user must be able to actually select
the right keyboard to at least type in his password.

I guess the keyboard selector at the login screen is necessary after
all...

Marc.