Enabling OSK enable both legacy osk and gnome-shell osk.

The issue there is that GNOME uses caribou but orca is still installed on upgrade (and used in unity?), the osk are activated through gnome-session/autostart .desktop that look at their gsettings key.

Unsure what would be the right way to fix that situation? We could exclude orca from GNOME session but wanting to use it in gnome-xorg session (not under wayland since it doesn't work there) is a valid usecase...

(orca->onboard in the previuous comment, thanks Jeremy for pointing it out)

the best for this cycle is probably to make onboard .desktop not list GNOME...

This should do the job.

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Sorry, rejected with the following message

  I think this accidentally skips 1.4.1-2ubuntu1 - also, please could you add DEP3 headers to the patch?

should be a trivial fix.

Also, a desktop not a release team issue, but please could you add a trello card to get this situation clarified / cleaned up next cycle?

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 1.4.1-2ubuntu1

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onboard (1.4.1-2ubuntu1) artful; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * debian/patches/1002_disable_onboard_on_gnome.patch:
    - don't enable onboard in GNOME sessions since caribou is being used
      and it leads to have two onscreen keyboards loaded at the same time
      (lp: #1721125)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 17:31:19 +0200

closing the caribou task since this was worked around in onboard.