Bug #7414: French (Switzerland) keyboard layout is incorrectly named in Tails Greeter

Bug #7414

French (Switzerland) keyboard layout is incorrectly named in Tails Greeter

Added by hyas 2014-06-14 01:58:21 . Updated 2020-04-15 06:05:32 .

Status:

Resolved

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Category:

Internationalization

Target version:

Start date:

2014-06-14

Due date:

% Done:

Feature Branch:

Type of work:

Communicate

Blueprint:

Starter:

Affected tool:

Welcome Screen

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Description

I have tested a bit this iso and there is an issue with keyboard’s name:
tails-i386-testing-1.1-20140613T1549Z-4b3c69a.iso

In the greeter of 1.0.1, I can select following settings:
Français -> Suisse -> Switzerland - French

Now, in the greeter of 1.1 above iso tested the same setting are under:
Français -> Suisse -> German (Switzerland) - French (Switzerland)

I guess the greeter is the first login menu of tails (after bootloader).

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History

#1 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-14 13:04:08

Priority changed from Normal to Elevated

Priority elevated, as it’s a regression.

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-15 10:15:28

Subject changed from Keyboard layout has incorrect name in greeter to French (Switzerland) keyboard layout is incorrectly named in Tails Greeter
Status changed from New to Confirmed

I can confirm this. It’s definitely a regression, but I doubt that we have the resources to treat it as a blocker for 1.1.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-15 10:46:55

The same issue affects the Ubuntu installer.

It could be argued whether it’s a bug or not, though: French (Switzerland) is a QWERTZ layout, so in some sense it’s closer to a German layout, than to a French one. Now, I understand users may tend to think in terms of spoken language, more than in terms of keyboard layout similarity.

#4 Updated by hyas 2014-06-16 04:49:06

Yes, you are right and I understand that qwertz is a German keyboard but I don’t think it was wise to change it from an end user perspective. I guess this is not a Tails issue nor Ubuntu. I think this is a debian issue. This should be reported in debian’s bug tracking system on the keyboard-configuration or console-data package. I will take care of that. Shall we close the ticket?

#5 Updated by BitingBird 2014-06-16 05:41:07

No, write here the bug number in Debian and we’ll keep tracking it :)

(Otherwise other users could report the same bug)

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-16 06:49:12

> I guess this is not a Tails issue nor Ubuntu. I think this is
> a debian issue. This should be reported in debian’s bug tracking
> system on the keyboard-configuration or console-data package. I will
> take care of that.

I don’t think keyboard-configuration or console-data are at
fault here.

The piece of software that feeds our Greeter (and presumably Ubuntu’s
installer as well) is libxclavier, by way of python-xclavier.