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[Mark Fortescue <1540587@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

UK keyboard is NOT available as an input method in uBuntu 14.04 LTS ibus
(1.5.5-1ubuntu3) input method selection.

Please can someone fix this omission by adding the appropriate info to
/usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml as having the system incorrectly
default to a US keyboard is a real pain - you can't put anything in
quotes or pipe output from one command into another. It makes a UK
keyboard system unusable.

My simple solution is to add the 'gb' keyboard as follows:

		<engine>
			<name>xkb:gb::eng</name>
			<language>eng</language>
			<license>GPL</license>
			<layout>gb</layout>
			<longname>English (UK)</longname>
			<description>English (UK)</description>
                        <icon>ibus-keyboard</icon>
			<rank>99</rank>
		</engine>

A better solution would be to process files in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols and add ALL available xkb keyboards to
simple.xml as a post installation operation. Doing this would help
people see the advantages of ibus instead of fighting it to try and get
a usable system.

** Affects: ibus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  No UK keyboard support

Status in ibus package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  UK keyboard is NOT available as an input method in uBuntu 14.04 LTS
  ibus (1.5.5-1ubuntu3) input method selection.

  Please can someone fix this omission by adding the appropriate info to
  /usr/share/ibus/component/simple.xml as having the system incorrectly
  default to a US keyboard is a real pain - you can't put anything in
  quotes or pipe output from one command into another. It makes a UK
  keyboard system unusable.

  My simple solution is to add the 'gb' keyboard as follows:

  		<engine>
  			<name>xkb:gb::eng</name>
  			<language>eng</language>
  			<license>GPL</license>
  			<layout>gb</layout>
  			<longname>English (UK)</longname>
  			<description>English (UK)</description>
                          <icon>ibus-keyboard</icon>
  			<rank>99</rank>
  		</engine>

  A better solution would be to process files in
  /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols and add ALL available xkb keyboards to
  simple.xml as a post installation operation. Doing this would help
  people see the advantages of ibus instead of fighting it to try and
  get a usable system.

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