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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1365755@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Daniele, and thanks for your report.

Please note that Language Support is a multi-task tool. Besides setting
language and regional formats, it also provides an interface for
installing languages including language support, which for some
languages includes IM engines. So it's not *so* strange that the IM
framework selector is there too.

With that said, the location may not be optimal. Currently there is also
a Text Entry panel, where the actual IM engines are set when applicable,
and that panel might be an option. Or, if Text Entry would be converted
to a sub-panel under Keyboard, Keyboard would probably be the
appropriate place.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1365755

Title:
  keyboard input method system not available from keyboard configuration
  in gnome-control-center

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The setting for the keyboard input system is not available in the only
  place where it should be set. It is only available instead in the
  separate application gnome-language-selector which has an icon in the
  gnome-control-center but is labeled as "Language Support".

  This caused pain to me and a lot of other users because of the
  installation and default activation of iBus in 14.04. (​see #1365752).
  It took me a long time to find that the setting is in gnome-language-
  selector, and I've discovered just now, filing this bug, that there is
  a way to access it from the control center. 30 minutes ago I would
  have titled the bug just "keyboard input method not available in
  control center".

  - "Language Support" should deal with the selection of a language. Setting the behaviour of the keyboard here is inappropriate.
  - "Keyboard" should deal with the configuration of the keyboard. A setting that changes the behaviour of the keyboard such as the input method should be available here.

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