To the SRU team:
I skipped kinetic. Not only because I'm lazy, but also because of
limited importance.
The "Alternate Characters Key" control can be assumed to be used by
relatively few users. And those who use it typically do it as a one time
setting. If a user of an updated jammy (including this fix) upgrades to
kinetic, their setting will be kept even if the UI in some cases will
say something else.
So while I think it's worth the effort to fix this bug in our latest
LTS, it's not worth the hassle of a kinetic SRU.
** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2000423
Title:
"Alternate Characters Key" UI not reflecting current choice
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in gnome-control-center source package in Jammy:
In Progress
Status in gnome-control-center source package in Kinetic:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
When you set an "Alternate Characters Key", only two of the available
options — "None" and "Right Alt" — are correctly reflected in the UI.
If you select some of the other options, the UI tells you that "None"
is selected. The xkb-options dconf value is correct, though.
As an example: If I pick Right Ctrl, xkb-options is correctly changed
to ['lv3:ralt_alt', 'lv3:switch']. So it looks like it parses
lv3:ralt_alt instead of lv3:switch, and incorrectly concludes that the
current value is "None".
[ Test Plan ]
* Install gnome-control-center from jammy-proposed.
* Go to Settings -> Keyboard -> Alternate Characters Key
and pick some other option but "None" or "Right Alt".
* Make sure that the option you selected is correctly
reflected in the UI.
[ Where problems could occur ]
This is a targeted fix which only affects a specific control in
Settings. Considering the current broken state, I'd say that the risk
is minimal that the change would make it worse.
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