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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #2034579
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 2034579

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Explanation of FeatureFreeze exception
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GNOME 45 includes a new keyboard layout viewer named Tecla to replace gkbd-keyboard-display (old and written in GTK3). The Main Inclusion Request for this was approved but I reverted the switch in the gnome-control-center, gnome-initial-setup, and gnome-shell packaging because the first release of Tecla crashed with some keyboard layouts. That issue has been fixed for the gnome-control-center integration.

Specific changes
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Drop the Tecla patch from gnome-control-center and gnome-initial-setup
Have gnome-control-center and gnome-initial-setup depend on Tecla
Promote Tecla to main

Later changes
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In my testing with GNOME Shell 45 Beta, there are still some issues with the Tecla integration. I'll file those issues upstream and we'd like to be able to switch GNOME Shell to use Tecla later this cycle. We would…

Drop the Tecla patch from gnome-shell
Have gnome-shell depend on Tecla
Demote libgnomekbd to Universe

Testing Done
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I successfully completed Test Case 1 and the first 5 steps of Test Case 2 from
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TestPlans/gjs