
Bug 80570 - kdebase missing country flags - this makes kxkb nearly unusable in certain cases
Summary: kdebase missing country flags - this makes kxkb nearly unusable in certain cases
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kdebase
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Rockai
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
Depends On:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
Reported: 2002-12-28 02:50 UTC by Fernando Perez
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-10-18 18:05:48 UTC

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Description Fernando Perez 2002-12-28 02:50:00 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux 2.4.18-14 i686; U) Opera 6.11  [en]

Description of problem:
The flag files in /usr/share/locale/l10n/* are all removed after running up2date.
This breaks basic functionality of the kde keyboard module.

  KDE uses these flag files to
  identify the various keyboard layouts, superimposing a two-letter country
  code on top of the flag icon.  This means that for layouts which correspond
  to the same country code, after updating kde it becomes impossible to
  visually distinguish between the various layouts. 

  For example, it is very common in the US to use the US and US_intl (US with
  deadkeys) layouts to type western languages with accents (such as Spanish
  and French) on US keyboards.  In the original KDE, the two layouts have a
  clearly different background, while after updating KDE the two backgrounds
  become the same.  It is then impossible to know which keyboard is active in
  any given window without actually typing something and seeing what happens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start from a stock 8.0 installation.
2. Configure kxkb (the keyboard kde module) to use two layouts with the same country name,
 such as us and us with deadkeys (us_intl).
3. When switching layouts (Ctrl-Alt-K), the little 'us' icon changes background from a US flag to a 'C' flag.
4. Run up2date. This replaces kdebase 3.0.3-13 with -14. 
Now all the flag files are gone.
5. Restart kde.

Actual Results:  Now the background for the keyboard icon is always a gray square.

It becomes impossible to visually know which layout is active.

This is EXTREMELY irritating to users who need to type in different languages.

Expected Results:  The visual feedback of the kxkb module should not be broken by up2date.

Additional info:

One can work around the problem by copying the /usr/share/locale/l10n directory 
from the stock 3.0.3-13 kdebase rpm back over the one that gets 'upgraded' by up2date.

This restores the color flags without any other impact on the system.

Comment 1 Petr Rockai 2006-07-17 18:28:37 UTC
newer Fedora Core release. If you still experience the problem with 
back to NEW state.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2006-10-18 18:05:48 UTC
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.

open a new bug with the relevant information.

Closing as CANTFIX.
