Comment 36 for bug 1723857

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Andrea Azzarone <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:51 PM, tom <email address hidden> wrote:
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>> I don't expect the fix to get into 17.10, with or without Ubuntu
>> developers.
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>> Related problems have been known in GNOME since 2015. Red Hat's Florian
>> Mullner wrote patches a year ago for this issue, and Kerignar wrote a
>> GNOME extension to disable caribou.
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>> I expect the fix to eventually get into Ubuntu without any Ubuntu
>> developers. I expect this to happen the same exact way that the problem
>> got into Ubuntu in the first place. Remember, this problem didn't exist
>> in 17.04 Ubuntu GNOME! Ubuntu 17.10 simply includes GNOME 3.26 with this
>> bug. No Ubuntu developers tested GNOME 3.26 and protected Ubuntu from
>> suffering this GNOME bug. Ubuntu will simply include 3.28 or some future
>> edition of GNOME in the future, that will eventually include a
>> correction to this bug, again WITHOUT Ubuntu developers.
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> This is actually wrong. Since the switch to Gnome Shell we are actively
> working with
> upstream to report and fix bugs (just check the Changelogs and you'll see
> that I'm right).
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>> Andrea Azzarone even said they won't work on it until 18.04.
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> This does mean that I'll start working on this on April '18. I consider
> this a major issues and I'll work
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*does not mean

> on this as soon as I'll finish to work on some other priorties. This does
> not mean that I'll not SRU (backport)
> the fix to 17.10. This is just the way Ubuntu development works.
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>> Don't tell me not to "edit war". It takes at least 2 sides to have an
>> edit war. You are not righteous or above edit warring. You are equally
>> to blame for the edit war.
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>> It is important to mark this bug as the master bug for the 3 clearly
>> advantageous reasons I've repeated so many times.
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>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723857
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>> Title:
>> onscreen keyboard appears whenever i touch touchscreen
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>> Status in GNOME Shell:
>> Unknown
>> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
>> Confirmed
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>> Bug description:
>> Impact
>> ======
>> I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the touchscreen, the keyboard appears.
>> It is disabled in System Preferences > Universal Access. This didn't
>> happen in any previous Ubuntus, including 17.04 GNOME, nor in Fedora, which
>> is GNOME based.
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>> Test Case
>> =========
>> 0. Find a laptop with a touch screen that works.
>> 1. Settings > Universal Access > Typing > Screen Keyboard = OFF
>> 2. Touch the screen.
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>> Regression Potential
>> ====================
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>> Workaround
>> ==========
>> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1326/block-caribou/
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>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1723857/+subscriptions
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>> Launchpad-Notification-Type: bug
>> Launchpad-Bug: product=gnome-shell; status=Unknown; importance=Unknown;
>> assignee=None;
>> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=gnome-shell;
>> component=main; status=Confirmed; importance=Undecided; assignee=
>> <email address hidden>;
>> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: caribou onscreen-keyboard
>> Launchpad-Bug-Information-Type: Public
>> Launchpad-Bug-Private: no
>> Launchpad-Bug-Security-Vulnerability: no
>> Launchpad-Bug-Commenters: 0atman asnod azzar1 electrosam janitor jbicha
>> nick-fellows payneio tombuntus vanvugt
>> Launchpad-Bug-Reporter: tom (tombuntus)
>> Launchpad-Bug-Modifier: tom (tombuntus)
>> Launchpad-Message-Rationale: Assignee
>> Launchpad-Message-For: azzar1
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