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

[Faidon Liambotis]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:18:45PM -0000, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> Please do not forget that the whole gnome-flashback (source) package fixes
> a lot of problems with gnome-panel. If we remove src:gnome-flashback from
> testing, that will leave gnome-panel users without:
> 
> - Wallpaper;
> - Mouse cursor;
> - End Session dialogs.
> 
> 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...

> 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.

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

Faidon