Comment 35 for bug 1723857

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:51 PM, tom <email address hidden> wrote:

> I don't expect the fix to get into 17.10, with or without Ubuntu
> developers.
>
> Related problems have been known in GNOME since 2015. Red Hat's Florian
> Mullner wrote patches a year ago for this issue, and Kerignar wrote a
> GNOME extension to disable caribou.
>
> I expect the fix to eventually get into Ubuntu without any Ubuntu
> developers. I expect this to happen the same exact way that the problem
> got into Ubuntu in the first place. Remember, this problem didn't exist
> in 17.04 Ubuntu GNOME! Ubuntu 17.10 simply includes GNOME 3.26 with this
> bug. No Ubuntu developers tested GNOME 3.26 and protected Ubuntu from
> suffering this GNOME bug. Ubuntu will simply include 3.28 or some future
> edition of GNOME in the future, that will eventually include a
> correction to this bug, again WITHOUT Ubuntu developers.
>

This is actually wrong. Since the switch to Gnome Shell we are actively
working with
upstream to report and fix bugs (just check the Changelogs and you'll see
that I'm right).

>
> Andrea Azzarone even said they won't work on it until 18.04.
>

This does mean that I'll start working on this on April '18. I consider
this a major issues and I'll work
on this as soon as I'll finish to work on some other priorties. This does
not mean that I'll not SRU (backport)
the fix to 17.10. This is just the way Ubuntu development works.

>
> Don't tell me not to "edit war". It takes at least 2 sides to have an
> edit war. You are not righteous or above edit warring. You are equally
> to blame for the edit war.
>
> It is important to mark this bug as the master bug for the 3 clearly
> advantageous reasons I've repeated so many times.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723857
>
> Title:
> onscreen keyboard appears whenever i touch touchscreen
>
> Status in GNOME Shell:
> Unknown
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Impact
> ======
> I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the touchscreen, the keyboard appears. It
> is disabled in System Preferences > Universal Access. This didn't happen
> in any previous Ubuntus, including 17.04 GNOME, nor in Fedora, which is
> GNOME based.
>
> Test Case
> =========
> 0. Find a laptop with a touch screen that works.
> 1. Settings > Universal Access > Typing > Screen Keyboard = OFF
> 2. Touch the screen.
>
> Regression Potential
> ====================
>
> Workaround
> ==========
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1326/block-caribou/
>
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> Launchpad-Notification-Type: bug
> Launchpad-Bug: product=gnome-shell; status=Unknown; importance=Unknown;
> assignee=None;
> Launchpad-Bug: distribution=ubuntu; sourcepackage=gnome-shell;
> component=main; status=Confirmed; importance=Undecided; assignee=
> <email address hidden>;
> Launchpad-Bug-Tags: caribou onscreen-keyboard
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