Hello,
I have some problems with keyboard layout switching.
I am running KDE 4.7.3 on Arch Linux.
The problem appeared after my last system update.
The settings:
I have two keyboard layouts: English (US) and Bulgarian. Main shortcuts and 3rd level shortcuts are set to None. Alternative shortcut is set to <ctrl>-<alt>-K (default setting). Switching policy is Global.
layout settings
The problem:
1. When I press <ctrl>-<alt>-K nothing happens.
2. If I right click the layout icon after I've tried to change the layout with the shortcut key, the context menu looks a little buggy: it displays the following options:
us - English (US)
-- -
(group separator)
bg - Bulgarian
(group separator)
Configure...

3. If i click the bg - Bulgarian it rights itself:

4. If the layout is bg and I use the shortcut key the layout changes to us, but the context menu is again bugged.
5. As long as the context menu is OK (if I haven't used the shortcut key), I can change the layout normally with left click, but if it's bugged I can't. The only way to change the layout then is by right clicking the layout icon and selecting bg.
Again: the problem didn't exist before (I don't know what the version was then).

I would appreciate your help.

I forgot to add that I can walk around this problem by setting change layout shortcut key from the advanced menu. I wouldn't like to use this method because it has a side effect: when the layout is Bulgarian the shortcut keys in the applications wouldn't work.

I have the same problem
I use <ctrl>-<meta>-K shortcut. Every time i press it, context menu become bugged as shown above.

Hi, I have the same problem, but according to this post viewtopic.php?f=66&t=98042&p=208448&hilit=keyboard+layout#p208448 and this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286302 our problem will be solved in the upcoming 4.7.4 release.