Invalid media key icon is unhelpfull and stress inducing

Bug #1975633 reported by Pierre-Yves Landuré
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Bug Description

My keyboard has an issue: the media forward key is always pressed (i was not aware of the issue at the time).

This resulted in a blinking crossed circle in a gnome shell overlay at the bottom of the screen (see attached screen capture).

There is no traces in logs of the issue, and the icon itself is very unhelpful, and by its omnipresence, very stress inducing for the novice user.

The issue came from this recurring event:

```
sudo evtest

...

Event: time 1653420080.828172, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 0
Event: time 1653420080.828172, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420081.596626, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value c100c
Event: time 1653420081.596626, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 1
Event: time 1653420081.596626, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420081.865743, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 2
Event: time 1653420081.865743, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420081.905479, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 2
Event: time 1653420081.905479, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420081.949732, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 2
Event: time 1653420081.949732, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420081.989527, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 2
Event: time 1653420081.989527, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420082.029481, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 2
Event: time 1653420082.029481, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1653420082.069486, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 208 (KEY_FASTFORWARD), value 2
```

The repeated key is know. The crossed circle icon should at least give a hint of the pressed key.
It should be a fast forward icon in a crossed circle.

Other wise, there should be a way to know that the FastForward key is pressed in the logs, not by bumbling around an finally trying the events.

Thank you.

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Pierre-Yves Landuré (biapy) wrote :
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time.

Do you still see a problem related to the one that you reported when using a currently supported version of Ubuntu? Please let us know if you do otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Marking 'Incomplete' as no release or flavour information has been given, there has been no response to comment #2 or response to the bug report for almost two years and the link to a screenshot in comment #1 is invalid.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Incomplete → Expired
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