Many important settings are missed in gnome-control-center
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Dear Ubuntu developers.
The Ubuntu 13.10 release have demonstarted that modern gnome-control-
For exmaple, Keyboard Layout Options window is missed in gnome-control-
It allows to set the following:
> Adding currency signs to certain keys
> Adding Esperanto circumflexes (supersigno)
> Alt/Win key behavior
> Caps Lock key behavior
> Compose key position
> Ctrl key position
> Japanese keyboard options
> Key sequence to kill the X server
> Key(s) to change layout
> Key to choose 3rd level
> Key to choose 5th level
> Miscellaneous compatibility options
> Numeric keypad delete key behavior
> Numeric keypad layout selection
> Use keyboard LED to show alternative layout
> Using space key to input non-breakable space character
Now (in Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04) these options are missed from gnome-control-
GNOME developers say that they moved these options to gnome-tweak-tool. Under Typing section gnome-tweak-tool has options:
> Show all installed input sources
> Key to choose 5th level
> Miscellaneous compatibility options
> Maintain key compatibility with old Solaris keycodes
> Layout of numeric keypad
> Swithing to another layout
> Ctrl key position
> Key sequence to kill the X server
> Numeric keypad delete key behaviour
> Adding currency signs to certain keys
> Caps Lock key behaviour
> Use keyboard LED to show alternative layout
> Japanese keyboard options
> Adding Esperanto supersigned letters
> Alt/Win key behaviour
In next 3 months Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be released and some users of previous LTS (12.04) may want to update to it. And they will not have many keyboard layout options.
So I recommend to include gnome-tweak-tool to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installation by default. This inclusion may be done by suggestion to install gnome-tweak-tool or by making it as a dependency of gnome-control-
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For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can see bug 1218322.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-tweak-tool 3.8.1-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-4-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 19 16:34:53 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-20 (90 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gnome-tweak-tool
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-19 (61 days ago)
description: | updated |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | Nick Tait (jnick-tait) → nobody |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Nick Tait (jnick-tait) → nobody |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: keyboard-layout-switching-related |
Changed in gnome-tweak-tool (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-14.04-beta-1 → none |
summary: |
- Ubuntu 14.04 should have gnome-tweak-tool installed by default because - of many settings that are missed gnome-control-center + Many important settings are missed in gnome-control-center |
affects: | ayatana-design → hundredpapercuts |
no longer affects: | hundredpapercuts |
tags: |
added: i386 keyboard-layout-switching-hotkeys removed: keyboard-layout-switching-related |
no longer affects: | gnome-control-center |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.