Please pull improved keyboard support from gnome-control-center

[jepst]

Although cinnamon-control-center and cinnamon-settings-daemon are based on gnome-control-center and gnome-settings-daemon, respectively, newer versions of the gnome-* packages have additional features, especially regarding keyboard layout handling, that should be integrated into the cinnamon-* packages. Some of these features:

1. As documented in No more than four keyboard layouts allowed #3146, the new gnome-* packages remove the long-standing and annoying misfeature of limiting the number of active keyboard layouts to four.
2. The new gnome-* packages are integrated with the input methods control panel, removing the need to configure ibus separately from keyboard layouts. This means that alternative input methods (such a cjkv character selection) can be installed, configure, and selected through the same user interface as normal keyboard layouts, thus obviated the need for the user to install and mess around with ibus. For example, the Japanese Anthy input method is displayed as a keyboard layout in the same menu as standard keyboard layouts, such as English (US).

[clfarron4]

This new package for dealing with Locale settings in Cinnamon might help: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintlocale

[jepst]

@clfarron4 The mintlocale package does not address either of the important features that I mentioned. The issue is keyboard layouts, not translations. So, mintlocale does not help.

[leigh123linux]

Why would anyone need to define more than 4 layouts per user?

[jepst]

@leigh123linux So that I can write in multiple languages.

[clfarron4]

Whilst I do think that requiring four layouts might be a bit excessive for
most users, I can also see that there are some people that might actually
go that far.

On 2 June 2014 10:57, jepst notifications@github.com wrote:

So that I can write in multiple languages.

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[jepst]

In many parts of the world, knowing several languages is common.

And obviously, even more so among people who work with translation.

Furthermore, most operating systems do not have this completely arbitrary limitation, including Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows, and Mac OS.

[anandrkris]

http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2014/10/improvements-in-mintlocale/ >> Not sure if this is addressed here....

[Suncatcher]

Confirm this issue. When will it be fixed?

[dmrauch]

No news on this? I am using Linux Mint 18 with Cinnamon 3.0.7, the maximum number of allowed keyboard layouts is still limited to 4. It would be really great if this limitation could be gotten rid of!

[Suncatcher]

Shame on them! It is pathetic they haven't fixed this yet.

[JosephMcc]

Shame on them! It is pathetic they haven't fixed this yet.

Yep. That's the way to encourage devs to get stuff done.

[leigh123linux]

@Suncatcher If you want it so bad do it yourself.

P.S There is fuck all the devs here can do to increase the number as it set by libgnomekbd !