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Bug 645404 - Keyboard variants sorting should be better than using alphabetic order
Keyboard variants sorting should be better than using alphabetic order
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboard
2.32.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-03-21 14:51 UTC by David Balažic
Modified: 2011-03-22 20:40 UTC
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Description David Balažic 2011-03-21 14:51:55 UTC 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/738301

When adding a new layout By country, after selecting the country "United States", the default variant is Latin America.

That is probably not the most commonly used, neither is it expected.

It is especially confusing, since if the user then clicks Add, the main windows will list "Latin America" as the new entry, with no mention of United States at all.
Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2011-03-21 18:20:21 UTC 
What alternative would you propose as the sort order?
Comment 2 David Balažic 2011-03-22 15:00:43 UTC 
After 2 seconds of thought:

 - by name, but select a predefined value by default (USA for United States, for example)
or
 - by popularity/expectations (guesstimated by developer)
Comment 3 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2011-03-22 20:40:07 UTC 
1. Predefined values is not an option - it would require hardcoding. No way
2. Hardcoding again?

Anyway, this is not going to be fixed in 2.32 - while in 3.0 the dialog is changed completely (using search), so this bug is not applicable.