Comment 45 for bug 1723857

*working on this in January

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Andrea Azzarone <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> My plan (if upstream agrees with me) is to add an enum option that will
> havethe the following possible values:
> - auto, we'll not show the osk if a physical keyboard was detected
> - always, always show the keyboard when a text-entry was touched
> - never, don't show the keyboard in any casen
>
> Anyway I'm planning to start working in January.
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Emile Victor <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> I would settle for having it be disable-able at all times. There is no
>> reason why it should default to on for a device with a physical
>> keyboard.
>>
>> The desired behaviour would be:
>>
>> 1. Detect if there is a physical keyboard
>> 1a. If there is a physical keyboard, on-screen keyboard defaults to
>> hidden at all times
>> 1b. If there isn't, default it to shown.
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723857
>>
>> Title:
>> onscreen keyboard appears whenever i touch touchscreen
>>
>> Status in GNOME Shell:
>> Confirmed
>> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
>> Triaged
>> Status in gnome-shell source package in Artful:
>> Triaged
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Impact
>> ======
>> I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the touchscreen, the keyboard appears.
>> It is disabled in System Preferences > Universal Access. This didn't
>> happen in any previous Ubuntus, including 17.04 GNOME, nor in Fedora, which
>> is GNOME based.
>>
>> Test Case
>> =========
>> 0. Find a laptop with a touch screen that works.
>> 1. Settings > Universal Access > Typing > Screen Keyboard = OFF
>> 2. Touch the screen.
>>
>> Regression Potential
>> ====================
>>
>> Workaround
>> ==========
>> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1326/block-caribou/
>>
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>>
>> Launchpad-Notification-Type: bug
>> Launchpad-Bug: product=gnome-shell; status=Confirmed; importance=Medium;
>> assignee=None;
>> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=gnome-shell;
>> component=main; status=Triaged; importance=High; assignee=
>> <email address hidden>;
>> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; distroseries=artful;
>> sourcepackage=gnome-shell; component=main; status=Triaged; importance=High;
>> assignee=None;
>> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: caribou onscreen-keyboard
>> Launchpad-Bug-Information-Type: Public
>> Launchpad-Bug-Private: no
>> Launchpad-Bug-Security-Vulnerability: no
>> Launchpad-Bug-Commenters: 0atman asnod azzar1 electrosam gillies janitor
>> jbicha nathanel.titane nick-fellows payneio pjsingh5000 tombuntus vanvugt
>> w32stuxnet
>> Launchpad-Bug-Reporter: tom (tombuntus)
>> Launchpad-Bug-Modifier: Emile Victor (w32stuxnet)
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>>
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