Repeating : 1/ Standard French keyboard has NO [CtrlGr] key. It does have 2 normal [Ctrl] keys bearing the exact same label. The right [Ctrl] key actually is a right [Ctrl] key and no other modifier or whatever.
2/ There are quite a *lot* of common, daily used by professional IT staff, keyboard shortcuts or combinations such as [Ctrl]-[Arrows], [Ctrl]-[PageUp/Down], [Ctrl]-[Home], [Ctrl]-[End], plus all such combinations adding [Shift], then [Ctrl]-L, [Ctrl]-M... -> All these day-long used combinations can be conveniently played with 2 (or 3) fingers when the right [Ctrl] key actually is a right [Ctrl] key, and changing this key breaks them all, needing people to start using both hands for typing what they have typed with 2 fingers for 30 YEARS ! And mistype. And mistype. And mistype. 3/ The issue with Rythmbox looks solved for long, and who wants to break professional use of a keyboard for a solved bug in a music player ? 4/ Nobody (normal user) I talked to has ever heard about a "level 5" story, nor do people give a damn. 5/ Everybody wanting to type non-breakable space in word processors (LibreOffice...) do it with [Ctrl]-[Shift]-[Space] and don't need a specifically modified right Ctrl for that. 6/ Breaking right [Ctrl] breaks other apps that specifically request it NOT to be broke, such as [VirtualBox] - again professional stuff. Breaking the right [Ctrl] keys on the french keyboard is plain stupid, period. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rhythmbox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/221112 Title: Can't use space bar in search bar when using french alternative keyboard Status in libgnomekbd: Confirmed Status in Listen, a Music player and management: Confirmed Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.: Unknown Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application: Confirmed Status in SciTE - A free source code editor for Win32 and X: New Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “quodlibet” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: [Impact] In the fr(oss) keymap, both space and Ctrl + space return the same XLookupString, which prevents space from being used in some applications. This had been fixed in lucid and maverick, but the patch appears to have been misplaced during the (rather major) update from 1.8 to 2.1, thus the reports of it regressing in comments #135 and #141, as well as dupe bug #938671. [Development Fix] Patch 128_fix_oss_ctrl_space_accelerator.patch fixed this problem in lucid and maverick, but was dropped in natty when we updated to upstream xkeyboard-config 2.1. However, the patch was also sent upstream and accepted there. So for quantal a cherrypick of that commit was backported. [Stable Fix] Since currently quantal is shipping the same xkeyboard-config version as precise, we can carry the same patch there as well. [Test Case] 1. Set keyboard to fr(oss). (Note due to unrelated bug, you need to do this in your /etc/defaults/keyboard config file.) 2. Start rhythmbox 3. Do a song search 4. Type in a search term that includes a space character Broken Behavior: Space triggers the play/pause function in rhythmbox Fixed Behavior: A space character is inserted [Regression Potential] The patch is one we carried in lucid and maverick (when rhythmbox was the default music player IIRC), and has been upstream for a while. So I think it is a safe change. Actually, I'm surprised there have not been more complaints about it lately. But during the interim we'd switched to banshee so perhaps users didn't notice it. [Original Report] I tried to search for "The Do" in the search bar, but the space bar didn't write a space. Instead, it played the currently selected song (space is the shortcut for playing/pausing the song). I've just installed the last Hardy release candidate. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Apr 23 19:30:12 2008 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: rhythmbox Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libgnomekbd/+bug/221112/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
