'Dead circumflex' in Unity keyboard combinations

[Ritesh Khadgaray]

[Impact]

 Unity keyboard shortcuts hint window lists "Dead circumflex" for "Switches window of current applications" under "Switching" , instead of "^" when using german keyboard. This is confusing .

In English, this is properly mapped to "`" so this appears to have lost a translation somewhere. Might be better to map it to "^" in the language pack as the German layout has:

- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirkumflex
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Laptop_Tastatur.jpg

[Test Case]

 * Switching to german keyboard
 * Hold Super key down, until unity shortcuts are seen

[Regression Potential]

 * I dont see any regression potential

[Other Info]

Version affected: 12.04 LTS / unity 5.18.0-0ubuntu1.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

While a cosmetic changed, it would be nice to have quantal SRU as well.
Ideally I'd wish to see this fixed in Gtk upstream as well, and not carry this as a distro patch forever.
I do wonder how this got lost in translation though =)

[Ritesh Khadgaray (khadgaray)]

Hi @xnox

* I have filled a bz upstream for this, and awaiting action.

* Proposed patch for quantal attached. Personally, I believe precise (LTS) and raring should be our goal to minimize the patchset/qa effort.

Thanks
-- ritz

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

unsubscribing sponsors until that's approved upstream, they currently have doubt about the approch and we don't want to SRU something that upstream considers potentially buggy

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[snapy (sdfjsfjaei-hans)]

Why is there no way of configuring the keyboard shortcut for "Switches window of current applications"? Or is there?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release