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Gnome-DO: Cannot type combination characters (like à or ") using internation layout keyboard

Bug #288517 reported by Michele Costantino Soccio
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gnome-do (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-do

Gnome Do doesn't accept any character which requires a combination of keys using the International Layout (former us-intl).
It will not accept any accented character (like à, è), or any special character (like ~, ", ^) which requires two subsequent key strokes (for example on the international keyboard to type ' ñ ' you need to press < ~ > and then < n >. In the same way to type ' " ', you need to press < " > and < SPACE >).

Gnome Do is not just not-displaying those characters: copying the string to clipboard revealed they are missing, just like you never typed them (for example " L'anatra è un uccello " will become " L anatra e un uccello ").

I'm using Intrepid, updated everyday.
My Gnome-Do at this moment is version 0.6.1.0-0ubuntu2

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote :

Yes. This is because our text-input (currently) sucks. This (among other text annoyances) is fixed in trunk, and will be in the 0.7 release.

Given Intrepid is releasing in a week or so, that won't make it in Intrepid. Expect to see 0.7 in Jaunty.

Changed in gnome-do:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Michele Costantino Soccio (michelinux) wrote : Re: [Bug 288517] Re: Gnome-DO: Cannot type combination characters (likeàor ") using internation layout keyboard

I have faith that Intrepid-Backports could give me a chance to see
Gnome-Do 0.7.

Il giorno ven, 24/10/2008 alle 04.20 +0000, Chris Halse Rogers ha
scritto:

> Yes. This is because our text-input (currently) sucks. This (among
> other text annoyances) is fixed in trunk, and will be in the 0.7
> release.
>
> Given Intrepid is releasing in a week or so, that won't make it in
> Intrepid. Expect to see 0.7 in Jaunty.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-do (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
> Status: New => Confirmed
>

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-do - 0.8.0-1~ubuntu1

---------------
gnome-do (0.8.0-1~ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Christopher James Halse Rogers ]
  * New upstream release. (LP: #323048)
    + Fixes text input problems (LP: #288517)
    + No longer grabs plugins from internet repositories (LP: #294808)
    + Preferences dialog is resizable (LP: #305419)
  * Build against gtk, gnome mono packages from Experimental. (Closes: #510836)
  * debian/control:
    + Bump versioned dep on libgtk2.0-cil to ensure
      Gdk.Screen.IsComposited exists (Closes: #510973)
    + Add libwnck2.20-cil build-dep
    + gnome-sharp2 transition.
  * debian/patches/04_fix_locale_dir
  * debian/patches/05_fix_localised_theme_setting
  * debian/patches/06_expand_homedir_in_open
    + Drop; fixed in new upstream
  * debian/patches/02_use_cli_for_wrapper
    + Update for new upstream
    + Add dpatch comments
  * debian/gnome-do.1
    + Fix broken formatting (LP: #291654). Thank you to Frédéric Grosshans
      for spotting it, and the patch.
    + Update for new version.

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * Tag pkg-cli-apps SVN revision into Jaunty, to get in before Feature
    Freeze. Should be a sync after the next Debian upload.

 -- Christopher James Halse Rogers <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:30:25 +1100

Changed in gnome-do:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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