Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed [LWN.net]

Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 12, 2006 9:13 UTC (Sun) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed by jyp
Parent article: Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Couldn't you use the kxkb applet to switch layouts?

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Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 12, 2006 17:24 UTC (Sun) by jyp (guest, #29846) [Link]

After a fresh install of Kubuntu Breezy, the keyboard layout window was empty
(System setting > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard layout); after reading many
forum posts I found a cure: create a symlink (/usr/share/X11/xkb -> /etc/X11/xkb).

Now the keyboard layout window was offering choices and I selected
Canada_french; the little icon appeared in the system tray; but I still cannot
manage to make the switch-keyboard shorcut works; I have to use the mouse
which is annoying.

The Kaffeine problem: before the fresh install, I had sound. Now no sound. But this
problem is much less of a problem for me than the scim/skim problem.

I am putting much hope in Dapper even if it is released later; better later and
better.

Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 12, 2006 23:38 UTC (Sun) by mepr (guest, #4819) [Link]

i believe your chinese support problem will be fixed if you install the following packages, plus the ones apt will recommend when you apt-get install:

kde-i18n-zhcn language-support-zh language-support-zh-cn language-pack-zh

the command "apt-cache search language-support" will show you all of the available languages.

Now, I tried this myself for japanese on a dapper install, because I was having the same problem.. only english was appearing in the kde-panel's internationalization. And the problem was solved. KDE's system-settings->Regional & Accessibility->Add Language now shows Japanese as an option. Now, as for keyboard layout, I don't know what to say, because Japanese was already listed as a keyboard layout choice. But perhaps I had already installed some other relevant packages.

As I said, that was on dapper, but my non-gui breezy badger server has those same packages available, and I would guess they would likewise fix the problem.
Note: i didn't notice the chinese packages at first because they are using zh instead of the cn that I expected.