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Bug 640226 - The input indicator menu menu is missing "Show Keyboard Layout" Item
The input indicator menu menu is missing "Show Keyboard Layout" Item
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.91.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-21 22:24 UTC by Sergey V. Udaltsov
Modified: 2011-04-11 13:16 UTC
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Description Sergey V. Udaltsov 2011-01-21 22:24:18 UTC 
According to

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/InputLanguage

and looking at gnome 2.32, there must be a way to display the current kbd layout.
Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2011-01-21 22:28:55 UTC 
Spawned from bug #600771

It was stated that the preview dialog (gtk) cannot be created in-proc inside gnome-shell. So the only way to create it is to launch some executable. I propose to ship that small executable in libgnomekbd. Any better solutions?

In theory, something half-transparent could be popped up on top of all windows by gnome-shell... But to me it looks like absolutely excessive bells & whistles.

Open to suggestions
Comment 2 Giovanni Campagna 2011-01-22 13:37:54 UTC 
I don't think it should be a dialog created by the Shell, primarily because it shouldn't be modal.
You could either add a small executable (but don't forget to call g_set_program_class to something useful, like gnome-control-center, or otherwise add a .desktop file for it), or add some command line to the region panel in the control center and spawn that. (like "gnome-control-center region --show-layout").
Comment 3 Adam Dingle 2011-04-11 02:06:10 UTC 
Is this still an issue?  In gnome-shell 3.0.0 I see Show Keyboard Layout... in the input indicator menu and it works just fine.  Can we simply close this?
Comment 4 Giovanni Campagna 2011-04-11 13:16:03 UTC 
Yeah, we just forgot to close this bug.