[Bug 1242572] Re: xkeyboard-config, console-setup, and ubiquity should use Super+Space for switching keyboard layouts

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Once upstream supports it, and xkeyboard-config supports it, we can
modify console-setup and ubiquity to support Super+Space key combos.

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Changed in: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Maarten Lankhorst (mlankhorst) => (unassigned)

** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #78076
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78076

** Also affects: xkeyboard-config via
   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78076
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  xkeyboard-config, console-setup, and ubiquity should use Super+Space
  for switching keyboard layouts

Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  Unknown
Status in “console-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “console-setup” source package in Trusty:
  Incomplete
Status in “ubiquity” source package in Trusty:
  Incomplete
Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Trusty:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Super+Space is default combination for switching keyboard layouts in
  gnome3, unity, Mac OS X, Windows. Thus for consistently, Xorg;
  console-setup; and ubiquity should also use Super+Space combination
  for switching keyboard layouts.

  reading xkeyboard-config sources and documentations i don't see that
  xkeyboard-config can support grp:lwin_space and i guess that needs to
  be the first step to properly support super+space.

  
  Original bug report below:

  
  Recently I installed Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu GNOME 13.10.
  I use two keyboard layouts - English and Russian.
  So I select them on the corresponding screen of ubiquity setup wizard.

  It quietly set the keyboard switching shortcut to Alt+Shift and wrote this setting to /etc/default/keyboard:
  # ...
  XKBMODEL="pc105"
  XKBLAYOUT="us,ru"
  XKBVARIANT=","
  XKBOPTIONS="grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
  # ...

  On first boot of installed system the small notification pop-up showed
  that Ibus will use Super+Space for layout switching.

  Please fix this configuration inconsistency.

  ----------
  For other layout switching problems introduced in Ubuntu 13.10 you can see bug 1218322.
  ----------

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Oct 21 12:16:58 2013
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-21 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131017)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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