Re: [gnome-flashback] Issues with gnome-flashback on Ubuntu 16.04

[Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com>]

Hi all,

2015-12-05 17:38 GMT+03:00 Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>:
> > > Can you try this:
> > > - set org.gnome.gnome-flashback.input-sources to true
> > > - add notification-area applet to see input source icon from
> > > gnome-flashback
> > >
> > > Then it should work, but you will see two indicators. If adding
> > > notification-area applet is acceptable to you then you probably can
> > > disable indicator-keyboard autostarting in GNOME Flashback by copying
> > > /etc/xdg/autostart/indicator-keyboard.desktop to ~/.config/autostart and
> > > adding extra line 'NotShowIn=GNOME-Flashback;'.
> >
> > Thank you Alberts, you're great!
> > I've had to remove /usr/share/upstart/sessions/indicator-keyboard.conf for
> > the last step to work.
> > I'd love to be able to do this for all users, or better yet, to have it as
> > the default for gnome-flashback.
>
> Did not ubuntu switch to systemd? Does it still load upstart configuration?

It still uses Upstart user sessions. There is a plan to get rid of
them, but it's not yet implemented, mostly because lack of manpower.

> > a) Dmitry, do we need to stick with the Ubuntu indicators?
> >  * The language indicator is semi-broken.
> >  * Pidgin, thunderbird etc indicators don't show up.
> >  * The "Add event" in the date/time indicator doesn't work.
> >
> > Did I understand it correctly that if we switch to whatever
> > gnome-flashback has by default, things will work fine again?
>
> The main problem here is that upstream gnome-flashback use deprecated
> GtkStatusIcon. To see these icons we need notification-area applet added to
> panel, but... We don't want to use that applet nor GtkStatusIcons. My plan
> is to write new library for status notifier specification and port all
> GtkStatusIcons to it.

Right, I want to avoid using the old tray. If upstream gnome-flashback
switches to StatusNotifier based tray, I'll use it then.

> > b) If the previous suggestion is not feasible, what would it take to
> > properly replace indicator-keyboard with the "gnome-flashback keyboard
> > applet"? Does it need to be rewritten so that is uses the Ubuntu API there
>
> Currently probably best option could be to:
> - make changes so ubuntu keyboard indicator is not started under
> GNOME-Flashback
> - enable input-sources by default
> - port all gnome flashback GtkStatusIcons or at least needed ones to
> libappindicator so there is no need to add notification-area applet (that
> would be ubuntu specific patches).

Having something in the notification area that is not consistent with
the rest of it is also what I would like to avoid.

Alkis, why can't you just define your favourite shortcut as GNOME
shortcut, and disable the X11 one? This way indicator-keyboard should
correctly handle it.

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Dmitry Shachnev