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[Julien Cristau <jcristau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

the fix looks like it'll reintroduce some form of #9529?  or was the use
of level4n instead of level4nl intentional?

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Title:
  Can't use space bar in search bar when using french alternative
  keyboard

Status in libgnomekbd:
  Confirmed
Status in Listen, a Music player and management:
  Confirmed
Status in Quod Libet is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python.:
  Unknown
Status in The Rhythmbox Music Management Application:
  Confirmed
Status in SciTE - A free source code editor for Win32 and X:
  New
Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  Fix Released
Status in “quodlibet” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  In the fr(oss) keymap, both space and Ctrl + space return the same XLookupString, which prevents space from being used in some applications.

  This had been fixed in lucid and maverick, but the patch appears to
  have been misplaced during the (rather major) update from 1.8 to 2.1,
  thus the reports of it regressing in comments #135 and #141, as well
  as dupe bug #938671.

  [Development Fix]
  Patch 128_fix_oss_ctrl_space_accelerator.patch fixed this problem in lucid and maverick, but was dropped in natty when we updated to upstream xkeyboard-config 2.1.  However, the patch was also sent upstream and accepted there.  So for quantal a cherrypick of that commit was backported.

  [Stable Fix]
  Since currently quantal is shipping the same xkeyboard-config version as precise, we can carry the same patch there as well.

  [Test Case]
  1. Set keyboard to fr(oss).  (Note due to unrelated bug, you need to do this in your /etc/defaults/keyboard config file.)
  2. Start rhythmbox
  3. Do a song search
  4. Type in a search term that includes a space character

  Broken Behavior:  Space triggers the play/pause function in rhythmbox
  Fixed Behavior:  A space character is inserted

  [Regression Potential]
  The patch is one we carried in lucid and maverick (when rhythmbox was the default music player IIRC), and has been upstream for a while.  So I think it is a safe change.

  Actually, I'm surprised there have not been more complaints about it
  lately.  But during the interim we'd switched to banshee so perhaps
  users didn't notice it.

  [Original Report]
  I tried to search for "The Do" in the search bar, but the space bar didn't write a space. Instead, it played the currently selected song (space is the shortcut for playing/pausing the song). I've just installed the last Hardy release candidate.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Apr 23 19:30:12 2008
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu6
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: rhythmbox
  Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

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