Bug#771922: keyboard handling broken with jessie's gnome-settings-daemon

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi,

On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 21:04:54 +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
>> You may say that gnome-panel should be removed as well, but please do not
>> forget that there are 8 other source packages depending on it, so they should
>> get removed as well in that case.
>
> Yeah, that's a good point. This affects the Flashback mode as a whole...

Another possibility will be to drop gnome-session-f{lash,all}back packages from
gnome-panel source. This way we won’t need to remove stuff that depends on
gnome-panel (though I still do not like this, see below).

>> I think the best solution will be to leave things as-is. But if you convince
>> the Release Team that removing 10 packages (or backporting 800 lines of code
>> to add keyboard grabber) is a good idea, I will be fine with that.
>
> I don't think this is fit for release as-is.
>
> Are you referring to the two patches I posted? If so, I wish it was that
> simple; those a) are a hack, since they provide org.gnome.Shell, b) only
> fix media keys & custom keybindings, not layout switching/input sources,
> c) even for media keys, there is no OSD, for e.g. volume.

Yes, I am referring to the two patches you posted.

Note that gnome-flashback already owns org.gnome.Shell to show end session
dialogs.

> In any case, though, let's agree on the problem first. This is currently
> a severity: grave bug, i.e. release critical.

I agree that this is a problem. However, GNOME Flashback can still be
usable in most cases:

- To switch keyboard layouts one can use good old xkb (I do that when I use
  GNOME Flashback session).
- Other keybindings are not so critical. To lock screen / power off / etc
  one can use the user menu.

Thus I still think this bug should be downgraded to important or ignored for
Jessie.

This mail is written from gnome-flashback session on Jessie, btw.

--
Dmitry Shachnev
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