Re: Freeze break request - gnome-settings-daemon - bug 681685

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos
<tiagomatos gmail com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> with the transition to the unified input sources design we lost the
> ability to use the XKB option that would configure a shortcut inside
> the X server itself to switch between keyboard layouts.
>
> This is a regression that can't be 100% fixed with the current
> architecture where it's gnome-settings-daemon doing the shortcut keys
> grabbing and the fact that those traditional shortcuts consisted of
> modifier only keys like Alt+Shift.
>
> Yet, we can partially fix it with some clever key grabbing like the
> current locate pointer feature does. So I basically re-used the locate
> pointer code to implement something that works relatively well except
> that it doesn't have all the options that the traditional XKB option
> had (although I'm adding some more right now) but I think it has the
> most important ones. It also doesn't work in the shell overview but
> that's part of the architectural problem I mentioned before (see bug
> 643111).
>
> Anyway the patches are at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681685 .
>
> I tried to make it so that this doesn't have much impact on the main
> gnome-settings-daemon itself by doing the actual work in a separate
> process (again just like locate-pointer) and this will have to be
> turned on explicitly by the user in gsettings (or on g-t-t once I get
> to it) so I believe it is safe to break the code freeze for this.
>

Hey Rui, thanks for working so hard until the last minute ! I'll try
to get your recent patches built and test them here locally, before
giving my approvals...