I talked with Sebastien Bacher on IRC about the idea to add a GUI option: https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2017/01/20/%23ubuntu-desktop.html#t09:57
After that I have checked out what the official flavors do today, and found that Kubuntu shows the whole list by default, but not the other flavors. As far as I could see noone has a GUI option for the purpose. There are pros and cons with a GUI option. However you label it, most people won't understand what it is about, which wouldn't be good from a design POV. So let's consider this bug fixed given that we now have a gsettings option which can be changed either via terminal or via dconf-editor, and which is honored by both u-c-c and g-c-c. As regards Ubuntu I have added a note to the desktop guide: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-doc/ubuntu- docs/trunk/revision/595#ubuntu-help/C/keyboard-layouts.page ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: unity-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to unity-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1009995 Title: Option to enable extra keyboard layout is lost Status in gnome-control-center: Fix Released Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: There no any way to make extra keyboard layout to be accessible/visible in keyboard layout choice dialog. So it is impossible to use Unity keyboard configuration tool to set an extra keyboard layout (such as Iran: Avestan; Lithuania: Dvorak; USA: International (AltGr Unicode combining|alternative), Atsina, Couer D'alene Salish; Romania: Ergonomic Touchtype; Serbia: Combining accents instead of dead keys; Russia: Church Slavonic, RUU; etc.). KDE4 loads these layouts without any user actions. GNOME2 makes these layouts visible in keyboard setting dialog through enabling "load-extra-items" option. But Unity can't do this in any way. (furthermore, as ~/.Xkbmap settings ignoring or overriding by DE, it is impossible to set extra keyboard layout at all without making startup script) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1009995/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
