[Bug 1226962] Re: Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) not functional in some cases in non-latin keyboard layouts

[Bryce Harrington]

** Changed in: inkscape
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) not functional in some cases in non-latin
  keyboard layouts

Status in aptana-studio-installer:
  New
Status in Default settings and artwork for Baltix OS:
  New
Status in LibreOffice:
  Fix Released
Status in ibus:
  New
Status in Indicator keyboard:
  Fix Released
Status in Inkscape:
  Fix Released
Status in Intellij Idea:
  New
Status in monodevelop:
  New
Status in Mutter:
  Fix Released
Status in okular:
  New
Status in OpenOffice:
  New
Status in sigram:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Fix Released
Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in kdevelop package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in mc package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-7 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in terminator package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in gnome-settings-daemon source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-terminal source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in kdevelop source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in mc source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in openjdk-7 source package in Xenial:
  Incomplete
Status in terminator source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in unity source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in unity-settings-daemon source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in gnome-shell package in Fedora:
  Won't Fix
Status in openoffice package in Fedora:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Keyboard shortcuts are key combinations like Alt+F (usually opens the
  File menu) and Ctrl+O (usually opens the File→Open... dialog box).

  There is an issue with non-latin keyboard layouts that the keys under F or O (for Alt+F and Ctrl+O respectively) would correspond to some other character.
  What should happen then? There is some smart functionality (at least in the GTK+ library) that when we press a shortcut, it will try to make Alt+F or Ctrl+O work, even if the active keyboard layout is not English.

  For this smart functionality to work, it requires us to have as first keyboard layout the English (en) layout. Then, GTK+ will be able to
  check whether the shortcut makes sense for English, and if so, will run it.
  All that even if the active layout is Greek or Russian or something else. 

  This report has over 300 comments and these comments include all sort of corner cases that indeed shortcuts do not work. In general, shortcuts work,
  but in specific cases there are issues that need to be fixed.

  What we need to do, is collect those corner cases and create new
  separate reports.

  Here are the corner cases:

  1. In Dash (in Unity 7), shortcuts like Super+S/W work (for example, Greek, Russian), but they do not work for Super+A/F/M/C/V. 
  Report: <not reported yet>

  2. Java GUI applications on Linux do not support shortcuts in non-latin languages. This is an issue with Java and should be reported there.
  Java GUI apps are not included in any of the Ubuntu ISOs. 
  Report: <not reported yet>

  3. Shortcuts that use Ctrl on LibreOffice work for several languages (like Greek, Russian), but has been reported not to work on Hebrew.
  This should be a separate bug report specific to Hebrew and other languages affected in the same way.
  Report: <not reported yet>

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