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Bug 758802 - certain aspects of gnome not usable
certain aspects of gnome not usable
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 741351
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-11-29 12:10 UTC by Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Modified: 2015-11-30 15:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
GNOME Caribous Bug (208.06 KB, image/png)
2015-11-30 14:22 UTC, Ritesh Raj Sarraf 		Details

Description Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2015-11-29 12:10:35 UTC 
I'm filing this as a generic bug but the example I'll quote is specific to Caribou.

GNOME has the philosophy to be simple and uncluttered. What exactly is targeted as "simple and uncluttered".


The current status of Caribou is broken. So I'm trying to explore a simple method to disable the Caribou keyboard so that I can explore other options.

I cannot see anywhere, a single button, to disable the Caribou keyboard.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2015-11-30 14:05:19 UTC 
It is in the universal access panel, 'Screen Keyboard'
Comment 2 Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2015-11-30 14:20:41 UTC 
No. I do not see how you think that keeps it permanently disabled.

If you touch into any text input field, org.gnome.Caribou.Daemon gets activated. And the Caribou keyboard will show up.


What I'm asking is, in the name of GNOME Simplicity, you should also have a "Single Button" approach to completely disable a feature/service. Uninstalling is not the right thing always. And many a times (in this case too), such packages are marked as Dependency.
Comment 3 Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2015-11-30 14:21:34 UTC 
(In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #1)
> It is in the universal access panel, 'Screen Keyboard'

Please also see attached screen shot to ensure we both are talking the same thing. To the best of my knowledge, currently, GNOME does not have a simple approach to disable certain features/services.
Comment 4 Ritesh Raj Sarraf 2015-11-30 14:22:05 UTC 
Created attachment 316519 [details]
GNOME Caribous Bug
Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2015-11-30 15:08:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 741351 ***