Please add ability to set keyboard shortcuts to unity-control-center launched from GNOME session FlashBack (Compiz and Metacity)

[Norbert]

Dear Ubuntu developers!

I understand that unity-control-center is on alpha stage.

But please sync unity-control-center appearance on Unity and GNOME FlashBack sessions.

For example for now keyboard shortcuts settings are missed in GNOME FlashBack sessions. Ubuntu users which use GNOME Classic desktop, not Unity (for example, me) can't set keyboard settings from unity-control-center.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-control-center 14.04.3+14.04.20140219-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-11.31-generic 3.13.3
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Thu Feb 20 19:21:33 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-20 (123 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1)
SourcePackage: unity-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-19 (93 days ago)
usr_lib_unity-control-center:
 activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu10
 deja-dup 29.5-0ubuntu2
 gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu50
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3+14.04.20140117-0ubuntu1

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

unity-control-center started from Unity session - for comparison.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Made a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04, installed gnome-panel package.
As a result I have gnome-control-center and unity-control-center.
So please adapt unity-control-center to GNOME sessions and throw away gnome-control-center.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Norbert, have you tried uninstalling gnome-control-center?

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Thank you for reply, Robert!

It seems that gnome-control-center was installed as recommendation.
I removed (completely, with purge) gnome-control-center, gnome-control-center-data, libgnome-control-center packages. So for now I have:
~$ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center*

gnome-control-center:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53
  Version table:
     1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
gnome-control-center-data:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53
  Version table:
     1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
libgnome-control-center1:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53
  Version table:
     1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
gnome-control-center-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53
  Version table:
     1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
libgnome-control-center-dev:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53
  Version table:
     1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
gnome-control-center-signon:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

- so there is no gnome-control-center in my system.
But unity-control-center looks poor in GNOME FlashBack session (see my screenshot in comment #1).

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

I will fix the missing icons problem on gnome-session-flashback side (by setting session name to Unity).

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

I think this fix will be a hack, not real fix.
It may cause unpredictable results in other situations.
But you may try, and I can test.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

That is not a hack. Tim asked me to do that because he is going to update
gnome-settings-daemon to 3.10, which will remove some features used by
flashback session.

Identifying as Unity will make us use unity-settings-daemon instead.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Sounds good, I'm ready to test.
Thank you for the explanation.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Norbert: test packages are available in ppa:mitya57/gnome-test. Please give your feedback.

See also bug 1224217 for tracking bug.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Please note: I reinstalled gnome-panel and it installed gnome-control-center and gnome-settings-daemon as dependencies.

Tested "unity-control-center keyboard" and "unity-control-center appearance" in Unity and GNOME FlashBack (Metacity and Compiz) sessions - they work.

If I set keyboard layout switch to Ctrl+Shift I unable to use shortcuts started with Ctrl+Shift+ in GNOME FlashBack sessions, but before unity-control-center fork it worked I remember (it's another bug I know).

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Forgot to mention - I added your ppa and unity-control-center looks identical in Unity and GNOME FlashBack sessions.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

The gnome-session-flashback part is done now.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Tested on daily image 2014-03-16 - bug is fIxed in all GNOME sessions (Metacity, Compiz).
But gnome-control-center and its friends is installed as dependencies of gnome-panel (or gnome-session-flashback).

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Norbert: No, I have gnome-session-flashback installed but not gnome-control-center.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

@mitya57
Dmitry, I think the difference comes from dependendency and recommedation resolution while installing software. I do not remeber exactly from which application I installed gnome-panel packages, but I use all of them - synaptic, aptitude and apt-get.