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unity-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1339244
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1339244

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Fadi Mouqayed (smfadi+uo) wrote :

Considering the fact that this bug makes it difficult to use a custom input device configuration in Ubuntu 14.04, I will try to make the case for a Trusty SRU. I normally use the hotplug-command facility to configure touchpad parameters that aren't exposed by the GNOME UI. FWIW, I can confirm that the Utopic package (Which includes the fix) works without issues.

[Impact]

* Due to this bug, using a custom input device configuration is made unnecessarily difficult out-of-the-box with 14.04. The GNOME documentation asserts that the "official" way of doing persistent custom persistent device configurations is by using the hotplug-command GSettings Entry combined with a shell script. This, however, does not work at the time of writing.

* As a result, a user who wishes to use a custom input device configuration is forced to use less-than-optimal workarounds such as disabling the GSettings "mouse" plugin altogether, which also has the potentially unwanted side-effect of disabling the Mouse/Touchpad configuration UI as well.

[Test Case]

* A simple test program is included within the description of the upstream GNOME Bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710791 and can be used to confirm that GSD is getting the correct exit code.

[Regression Potential]

* Minimal. The proposed patch only fixes the extraction/comparison of the exit status and has been proven to work on 14.10.