No Num Lock indicator

[Chris Gregan]

Summary:
There are no onscreen indicators for NumLock, Caps Lock, or FnLock. This causes difficulty when typing since you don't have any visual feedback for the typing mode you are currently in.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Hit NumLock button on keyboard
2) Hit Caps Lock button on keyboard
3) Hit Fn key

Expected result:
There is a visual indicator on the screen that displays the keyboard lock you have enabled.

Actual result:
No indicators exist for keyboard modes

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

This is new feature request, seems not important for menlow, QA suggest fix-later.

[ToddBrandt (todd-e-brandt)]

Yea I can see the usefulness of this I suppose. Usually there's an LED on the device itself for it but we could add, say a status bar applet that shows a little icon with num/scroll/caps.

[cathyli (cathy-li)]

Remove "Pending" tag since it is assigned to "m11".

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Nobody is complaining about this...changing to wishlist.

[Tony Espy (awe)]

Marked as Invalid for Acton. This is a not a feature being asked for by the customer.

[Chip (chipflory)]

This is also an issue running Intrepid on an Eee-PC with no LED lock button indicators.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

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[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

not a meta-gnome2 issue, the package doesn't have any code to manage this.