tracker-status-icon registers obsolete Ctrl-Alt-S shortcut

[Andrei Dziahel]

Binary package hint: tracker-gui

Reproducing:

1. Ensure tracker-status-icon is running
2. Hit Ctrl-Alt-S anywhere

Expected behavior: application-specific

Actual behavior: tracker search window pops up

This is unneeded, because tracker search is already bound to XF86Search key

Resolution: remove line 222 at src/tracker-status-icon/tracker-status-icon.c where Ctrl-Alt-S keybinding is hardcoded. I've got sources from apt-get source, but was unable to find it in launchpad bazaar branches, so it's up to you.

Thanks.

[Andrei Dziahel (develop7)]

Forgot to mention, according to source, this bug looks like Maverick-only.

[Zaur Nasibov (basicwolf)]

Yep, affects me too. This is especially boring when using e.g. Emacs :(

[Andrei Dziahel (develop7)]

Zaur, could you please navigate to here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/672614/+affectsmetoo) then? May be this will bump responsible people to rebuild appropriate package at last.

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Andrei - thanks for reporting this and thanks too for a fix!

As mentioned by Zaur, this bug stops you running isearch-forward-regexp which is bound to control+alt+S in emacs by default.

Adding a new entry in gnome-keybinding-properties for control+alt/meta+S (to try and override tracker) doesn't work.

Bug exists in latest upstream tracker (git://git.gnome.org/tracker). I've reported it there:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636383

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

This issue has now been fixed in upstream git repository:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/commit/?id=8338b23d1c2617588ed9917f1ffa7d781d6c501d

[Andrei Dziahel (develop7)]

Great. I'd suggest to backport fix into maverick-proposed.

[Louis-Dominique Dubeau (ldd)]

For some reason I was not experiencing this bug in maverick but I do experience it in natty.

$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/tracker-status-icon
tracker-gui: /usr/bin/tracker-status-icon

$ apt-cache policy tracker-gui
tracker-gui:
  Installed: 0.8.17-1ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.8.17-1ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.17-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Earlier messages on this bug suggest that it is a maverick-only bug but I've downloaded the natty source with apt-get and sure enough src/tracker-status-icon/tracker-status-icon.c contains:

        /* FIXME: Make this configurable */
        set_global_keybinding (icon, "<Ctrl><Alt>S");

The last line is line 222.