no way to disable haptic feedback

[James Hunt]

System settings allows the keyboard sound to be disabled, but I can't see a way to disable haptic feedback.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguageAndText#phone>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug report.

There is no control on the design for that,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguageAndText#phone

Matthew, do you have any opinion on that?

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

I would imagine being able to disable haptic feedback would have a positive impact on battery life.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Any ideas for a good way to label this?

    Keyboard sound
    Keyboard ________

 "Keyboard vibration" seems a little overwrought for something so brief. And "haptic" is too geeky.

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

How about "Quiver on keypress" ? That might necessitate changing "Keyboard sound" to "Sound/tone on keypress" for symmetry though?

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Android seems to have haptic feedback, vibration feedback, and Vibrate when typing depending on version
Keyboard feedback or Keyboard vibration?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LanguageAndText?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=phone-language-and-text.png>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-system-settings - 0.3+14.10.20140812.3-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-system-settings (0.3+14.10.20140812.3-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

  [ Ken VanDine ]
  * [battery] Updated based on latest designs, switching from brightness
    slider to progression which loads the brightness plugin.
    [brightness] Moved BrightnessSlider component to brightness plugin,
    since it's now only used in one place. (LP: #1289470)

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * system-update: tweaks to the "no update available" label (LP:
    #1348568)

  [ William Hua ]
  * Use gsettings-qt in language panel.
  * Add auto-punctuation and keyboard vibration options. Also fix auto-
    completion to be auto-correction per spec. (LP: #1352398)

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Implement a lock security page in the wizard. This page is super
    ugly right now and just the bare bones functionality needed to set a
    passcode or otherwise. Design is working on final visual design and
    we will update later. (LP: #1348362)

  [ jonas-drange ]
  * [cellular] uis for default SIM settings
  * [cellular] use expandable to show/hide sim editor and put the sim
    editor in a Loader element to optimize single sim setups
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:23:51 +0000

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

This is not working. Using image 188 with system-settings version 0.3+14.10.20140813-0ubuntu1, I now see the following options:

- keyboard sound
- keyboard vibration

... but now both are impotent - I cannot re-enable keyboard sound and the vibration option does nothing (vibration is always on).

[William Hua (attente)]

I just tried it and it's working for me. I did a dist-upgrade on a writable-image hammerhead.

ubuntu-system-settings:
  Installed: 0.3+14.10.20140814-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.3+14.10.20140814-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.3+14.10.20140814-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ utopic/universe armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

It might be an ubuntu-keyboard bug.

[William Hua (attente)]

James, can you adb into the device and see if dconf is being updated properly?

gsettings list-recursively com.canonical.keyboard.maliit

[William Hua (attente)]

^ above command as phablet, not root

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Yes, dconf/gsettings is correctly toggling to true when I enable/disable haptic feedback via system-settings, but the haptic feedback is always on:

# Initially haptic feedback is enabled:

$ gsettings list-recursively com.canonical.keyboard.maliit
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit spell-checking-languages @as []
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit predictive-text true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit active-language 'fr'
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit double-space-full-stop true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit auto-capitalization true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit key-press-feedback true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit key-press-feedback-sound '/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/ubuntu/styles/ubuntu/sounds/key_tick2_quiet.wav'
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages ['en', 'fr']
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit spell-checking true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit auto-completion true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit key-press-haptic-feedback true

# Toggling it to off:
$ gsettings list-recursively com.canonical.keyboard.maliit

com.canonical.keyboard.maliit spell-checking-languages @as []
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit predictive-text true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit active-language 'fr'
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit double-space-full-stop true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit auto-capitalization true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit key-press-feedback true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit key-press-feedback-sound '/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/ubuntu/styles/ubuntu/sounds/key_tick2_quiet.wav'
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit enabled-languages ['en', 'fr']
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit spell-checking true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit auto-completion true
com.canonical.keyboard.maliit key-press-haptic-feedback false

... but even when false, I still have haptic feedback.