Opened 3 months ago

Last modified 3 months ago

#19014 new enhancement

type ahead filtering for keyboard layout selection

Reported by: nephele Owned by: stippi
Priority: normal Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Applications/FirstBootPrompt Version: R1/beta5
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

It would be a nice addition if the selection of the keyboard list would support type ahead filtering.

I realize this is somewhat non-deterministic, since keyboards can *in theory* have their keys wherever, but usually with the "us standard" keyboard this should help somewhat with selecting a layout quickly.

An alternative would be:

  1. Autodetect the layout for keyboards that properly report this (apple i guess)
  2. Have a detect dialog (macos asks to press the key next to lshift for example)

Change History (1)

comment:1 by pulkomandy, 3 months ago

Component: Applications/Installer → Applications/FirstBootPrompt
Owner: changed from nobody to stippi
Summary: Installer: type ahead filtering for keyboard → type ahead filtering for keyboard layout selection

The detection dialog is not a great idea because it ends up being longer and more complicated than just picking in a list. Usually, people have a good idea of which layout they use.

The autodetection would be great for keyboards that support it, but can be tricky if there are multiple keyboards connected to the system. I think we already have a ticket about it.

Maybe the list can be reorganized, for example to put latin / cyrillic / other keyboards? (or some other splitting in roughly equal parts), then locating the correct one may be easier.

Overall, I'm not sure this is a thing we need to optimize super well: you shouldn't need to run this so often.

(and finally, moving to the right component, as this is not actually handled by Installer).

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