The keyboard layouts screen has a few functionality and design issues
With a fresh set of configurations for xfce, the keyboard layouts screen is kind of broken. Here are some of the problems:
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You cannot switch keyboard layouts via keyboard shortcut or the panel plugin unless you check and uncheck the "Use system defaults" button. Then, you can switch the layouts just fine.
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The model selector is, by default, blank which doesn't really make sense as the keyboard seems to work fine. Wouldn't it be better to have one of the "Generic X-key PC" options or even just "Default?"
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The "Use system defaults" button isn't enabled by default. As far as I know, I don't think that is intended, but even so it would make the configuration more simple for the user by default as most people don't have multiple layouts.