Comment 15 for bug 773078

Thanks!

I do very much like unity (I know that makes me a weirdo). But maybe I'll
give gnome shell a try if they get this sorted out.

D

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, truant <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Dav,
>
> This bug has also been reported upstream, and some progress is happening
> there.
>
> See here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647711
>
> Whether a Gnome Shell fix will make it into Unity is another question,
> but as I use Shell anyway, it's not a question I'm personally concerned
> about.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773078
>
> Title:
> Should display the StickyKeys status in some way (a11y)
>
> Status in Unity:
> Confirmed
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: indicator-application
>
> Following an upgrade to Natty, I can no longer determine what state my
> stickykeys are in. No special steps are needed to reproduce this
> issue, just being in a Unity session.
>
> Previously this information was provided by the gnome-panel-applet
> called "AccessX Status" which displayed a row of icons which would
> show either latched or locked for each modifier key. In GNOME 2.x, I
> would right click a panel, select "Add to Panel" and choose "Keyboard
> Accessibility Status"
>
> This would give me a line of 6 square icons representing Alt, Ctrl,
> Super etc. These icons change state depending on which keys are being
> (temporarily or permanently) locked by stickykeys.
>
> While stickykeys seems to work - in that keys are latched/locked as
> one would expect - the lack of information about their state renders
> the feature considerably less usable. For some users, myself
> included, this is a critical a11y failure and requires using the GNOME
> 2.x environment instead of Unity.
>
> This is now the third time I've reported this bug/problem, hopefully
> I've got it in the right place this time! Apologies if not, and
> please do let me know where I should be reporting this if not here.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: indicator-application 0.3.2-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Fri Apr 29 10:28:52 2011
> ExecutablePath:
> /usr/lib/indicator-application/indicator-application-service
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64
> (20100827)
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: indicator-application
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (0 days ago)
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