Caps Lock status notifications

[Mustafa Erdogan]

this is suggestion more than a bug report. ubuntu has default cool on screen indicators for volume control, display brightness ..ie. but there is no Caps Lock on screen indicator by default. i am currently using Lenovo ThinkPad X230 and unfortunately there is no led indicator light on the keyboard for caps lock. could you please consider putting caps lock on screen indicator by default to ubuntu? it would be cool if you could. thanks.
---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-14 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
Package: gnome-shell 3.28.3+git20190124-0ubuntu18.04.2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-20.21~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Tags: bionic
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-20-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

apport information

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

apport information

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

apport information

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

apport information

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1734887, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Tom Reynolds (tomreyn)]

The way I understand Mustafa's report this is about the general lack of a caps lock state indicator on (so primarily post-login, in gnome-shell). Bug #1734887 rather discusses the lack of an indicator pre-login (gdm), so is a different issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you give details on what sort of indicator you expect? One in the top panel? One in password/text widgets?

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

Hi. i am expecting a Caps Lock indicator by default (without need of usage any 3rd party app which are not working proper tested few) like the screenshot of Volume indicator as an example i attached. thanks.

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

@Sebastien Bacher, another screenshot of "Volume mute" attached. Caps Lock indicator also should be "on screen" looks like other indicators. not on top bar or anywhere else. for example when Caps Lock is on bright white A logo in the box, and when Caps Lock is off gray crossed A looks like the volume mute indicator in the box. you can add settings like to do it permanent on screen when Caps Lock is ON and temporary when it is OFF or both can be visible permanent on screen. those can be optional in my suggestion.

as a suggestion maybe you can put Num Lock and Scroll Lock indicators as well.

thank you all in advance for your hard works and contributions to make Ubuntu the best.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What you are showing are notifications, not an indicator. Changing the title according, could you also report it upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues? (they are the ones deciding about the design, also unsure those would be useful if password entry indicate the status)

[Mustafa Erdogan (muerdogan)]

hi Sebastien,

i posted issue in there as you suggested me: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1306

but it is annoying that there is no default "Caps Lock" notification/indicator on screen. dont you think so? some laptops or keyboards dont have led indicator physically like mine. and 3rd party apps for caps lock really dont suit with default notifications.

thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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