Since November, I’ve installed Fedora 43, and some bugs are still unfixed. I know there’s an ongoing discussion about orphaned bugs that are never fixed, separating upstream from downstream issues—in short, a discussion I’m completely lost on—but some bugs are critical and remain a barrier to using Fedora. I followed the documentation on how to search for a bug, using the address https://packages.fedoraproject.org, but I can’t find anything, and the terminology is a bit off-putting. For example, is the GNOME virtual keyboard called osk? Or is it called on-screen keyboard? Or virtual keyboard? Or gnome-keyboard? Or accessibility keyboard? I don’t know, i cant find anything with the search tool and the packages at the address mentioned don’t mention any gnome-keyboard. It’s even worse on gitlab.gnome.org: when I search for OSK, nothing; when I search for virtual keyboard, nothing; when I search for on-screen keyboard, nothing; when I search for gnome-keyboard, nothing. I had to contact Igalia, who seems to be in charge of the Chromium bug for the virtual keyboard, but what is their priority for a bug that affects Wayland, which affects a small keyboard that itself belongs to GNOME Shell, which itself belongs to GNOME, which itself belongs to Fedora? A very, very low priority…
WHY?
- The virtual keyboard is still jerky, with its auto-completion system broken. For accessibility reasons, when someone with a disability has to type everything on a virtual keyboard, it’s a real problem. The virtual keyboard, which is supposed to be universal, only works with some applications but not all, creating a double problem. I was using X11 before on another distro, because on X11 there are many virtual keyboards that work on GNOME apps but also on external software (Chromium, etc.) Now, the virtual keyboard is unusable as is, and I have to rely on artificial intelligence to convert my speech into text, only to then correct all the AI’s nonsense with a malfunctioning virtual keyboard…
Aside from these few issues, Silverblue is a fantastic tool, Flatpaks are exceptional, and I must acknowledge that the Fedora project is truly a pioneer in the concept of a workstation. Congratulations to those who refine, structure, and shape this wonderful OS. Aside from the confusion about who I should report these bugs to (upstream? downstream? ostree? flatpak? gnome? wayland? chromium?)…
((Désolé si tout cela manque de sens, je parle français et mes mots sont traduits par une intelligence artificielle qui doit aussi retranscrire mes mots en texte.))
Thanks!