Summary/Minutes for today's FESCo meeting (2013-01-09)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:02:05PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 18:05 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > GNOME can apply a keyboard config you set via GNOME Control Center
> > > systemwide, using localectl. I'm not sure KDE, Xfce, LXDE or other
> > > desktops have any ability to do this, though, so if you're running one
> > > of those, your only option for setting a system-wide keyboard config may
> > > be calling localectl or editing vconsole.conf directly.
> > 
> > KDE indeed doesn't do it systemwide. We really need system-config-keyboard 
> > fixed! This should have been a release blocker. :-/
> 
> No reason why. It's practically the poster child for something that can
> be fixed with a post-release update, as it by definition only affects
> post-release configuration. I didn't even bother nominating it as a
> blocker and it would have been comfortably rejected if it had been
> proposed.

Unless your password contains characters affected by the keyboard
layout.  One of the user accounts I test with is set up like this, and
frequently hits this sort of bug -- I recommend others try the same
thing.

Rich.

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