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 protected]> 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. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > 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) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/773078/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773078 Title: Should display the StickyKeys status in some way (a11y) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/773078/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
