Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 11:31 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 3.1.2013 10:51, Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> > On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 20:17 +1030, William Brown wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 01:42 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 09:23 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> >>>> On 01/03/2013 08:03 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>>>> Hey, folks. I'm not really sure how to frame it, but the result of all
> >>>>> my poking about at keyboard layout bugs and related stuff recently is
> >>>>> that I'm pretty sad at the state of support for
> >>>>> anything-but-U.S.-English in Fedora 18.
> >>>> <snip>...</snip>
> >>> I really didn't want this to turn into a release philosophy thread, the
> >>> question was limited strictly to a 'how bad do we really think these
> >>> keymap issues are' thing.
> >>
> >> I think they are quite an issue still. Even basic things like a non-us
> >> qwerty keymap (IE dvorak) still has issues from anaconda (Is still
> >> qwerty in tty).
> > Oh, yeah, that's another issue I didn't call out - setting a keymap
> > within anaconda doesn't necessarily set it on the console. (Though did
> > that work in F17?) And apparently the console layout you get when
> > picking Czech is a bad one, that needs its own bug.
> 
> Considering you cannot easily switch input method in Gnome 3.6 [1] and 
> that is not going to change in 3.6, I consider every other keyboard 
> layout issue as insignificant and F18 should be released as it is now, 
> because it will not be better.

That's really overplaying the issue. You can configure a perfectly
reasonable shortcut in gnome-tweak-tool. And that issue is pretty
orthogonal to many of the ones I listed.
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