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Suor (suor-web) wrote : Re: [Bug 1226962] Re: Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout in 13.10

Stable old system even with new applications is not an option for many
developers. Cause of old kernel, standard libraries and such.

For example, my touchpad won't work on older kernels and many other
hardware in newer laptops. I once struggled for substantial amount of time
to compile node.js on CentOS cause of old stdlib. It's also much harder to
install new versions of Python, Perl, Ruby, gcc on older distributions.

And anyway, proposing to not upgrade to stable release to not get severe
bugs sounds very strange.
05 дек. 2013 г. 23:11 пользователь "Anton Statutov" <
<email address hidden>> написал:

> @Norbert
> Ubuntu 12.04 was not more stable then 12.10 or 13.04. It's even not
> claimed to be more stable by Canonical, as it's just long term support.
> Many applications of older versions aren't usable for real tasks. I can
> name some examples. GIMP 2.6 (from 12.04) has no layer groups support, so
> it was completely useless to open PSD-files. OwnCloud 5.0.4 (also from
> 12.04) has some deal-breaking bugs and known vulnerabilities, making it
> completely unusable. And the same for ownCloud client. LibreOffice 1.3 is
> one more example, it's not usable on some complex files. We use OS not for
> itself but for applications, so LTS is not a solution at all. In other
> words we need stable base system and fresh applications, but there is no
> such a choice for Ubuntu.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1226962
>
> Title:
> Hotkeys not functional in non-latin keyboard layout in 13.10
>
> Status in IBus:
> New
> Status in Indicator keyboard:
> Fix Released
> Status in Mutter:
> New
> Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
> New
> Status in Unity:
> Invalid
> Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “indicator-keyboard” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> New keyboard layout changer in Ubuntu 13.10 introduce old-new bug. Any
> system or application hotkey witch use char (for example: ctrl+alt+t for
> terminal or ctrl+t for new tab in browser) become unfunctional when
> selected non-latin keyboard layout.
> Hotkeys with F1-12, numbers and other non-character buttons works
> perfectly.
>
> Window manager hotkeys not affected by this bug. All hotkeys in system
> parameters->keyboard->hotkeys->windows works perfect with any keyboard
> layout.
>
> Workaround for some system hotkeys and two layouts (english and non-
> latin): rebind all hotkeys in your local layout. For example instead
> of ctrl+alt+t use ctrl+alt+τ (greek tau). That hotkey still work with
> english layout. If you use english and two different non-latin
> layouts this workaround helps only with one of them.
>
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> For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can
> see bug 1218322.
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