onboard layout to switch language selected in input method

Hi, how do you switch to Telugu by input method?

Key labels do appear to change if I add Telugu in system settings, keyboard layout and select it with Unity's layout switcher. I don't know this language unfortunately, hard to tell if all labels are correct, but they do change.

I switch the language with IBus input selector

Thanks, I figured out how to do it. From the users point of view it would indeed make sense to reflect the changes to the input method in Onboard's labels. Whenever a Telugu input method is enabled the labels don't reflect at all what is being typed.

That said, I'm unsure how to accomplish this. I'm not very familiar with IBus, but as I understand it, input methods aren't restricted to fixed layouts. They are free to use context and may change what is being typed on the fly. Simply auto-switching to another fixed keyboard layout in Onboard wouldn't help a lot. It is unclear to me how to retrieve the label information for the active input method and if that is possible at all.

Assuming it was somehow possible to get the information from IBus, it would still be quite a large task. Onboard doesn't support label changes as dynamic as I believe this would require. Currently it is well suited for static keyboard maps (with multiple layers) only.

So in essence, I'm not very hopeful it will be implemented by us, but we should keep your request in mind. I'll open a wishlist bug as a reminder. Patches are very welcome of course.