[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 885997] cannot distinguish keyboard layouts from ibus engines in Input Sources

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885997

Jens Petersen  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |control-center-maint@redhat
                   |                            |.com, [e-mail],
                   |                            |[e-mail],
                   |                            |[e-mail]
          Component|ibus                        |control-center
           Assignee|[e-mail]         |control-center-maint@redhat
                   |                            |.com
            Summary|unable add "input source"   |cannot distinguish keyboard
                   |in"Region&language"         |layouts from ibus engines
                   |                            |in Input Sources
              Flags|needinfo?([e-mail])  |

--- Comment #8 from Jens Petersen  ---
Right - at least in gnome-3.8 input engines are now listed with an icon
next to them to distinguish them from keyboard layouts.  We also talked
about moving the layout preview and engine config buttons into the
Input Sources list.

I don't know what keyboard layouts gnome is filtering currently
but I agree they really need to be reviewed and filtered more.

eg "Japanese (PC98xx series)" could probably be hidden.

The problem is this really requires review by experienced native users
for each country so it is hard to get it all done - at the
same time legacy layouts can't really be removed from X since
a few people might still have those old keyboards in use
but perhaps they could be labelled old/deprecated/out-of-production/
obscure(?), etc in xkeyboard-config.