Global keyboard shortcuts should not depend on current layout

[Dmitry Kann]

After upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise global shortcuts began to depend on current layout, which is not how it's supposed to be.

Say, I assign the global shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D to run an application. But if I have Russian layout selected in the current application, the system translates it into Ctrl+Alt+Shift+"Cyrillic ve" and ignores it. The same goes for assigning shortcuts in GNOME Control Center, the shortcut is read in the current layout.

*Global* shortcuts should not depend on current keyboard layout in the application.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 29 10:04:59 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
 deja-dup 22.0-0ubuntu2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.2-0ubuntu5
 indicator-datetime 0.3.94-0ubuntu2

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

I seem to identify the cause of the issue. As of Precise global shortcuts began to depend on current layout, which is wrong.

Say, I assign the global shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D to run an application. But if I have Russian layout selected in the current application, the system translates it into Ctrl+Alt+Shift+"Cyrillic ve" and ignores it.

Global shortcuts depending on current keyboard layout in the application is a sort of nonsense, I suppose.

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

Here people report a similar problem in GNOME Shell: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674892

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sean Patrick Santos (quantheory)]

Here is precisely the opposite issue:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/992789

In that case, changing the *global* keyboard does not change the *global* shortcuts when it is expected to.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

@Sebastien Like I said above, the upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674892

[Dmitry Kann (yktooo)]

The Gnome bug I mentioned above is marked as resolved in 3.6, but it's not exactly the problem I reported.
The correct Gnome bug for my issue is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678001

[Suor (suor-web)]

Anything new about this bug? Maybe someone found a workaround?