Compose Key Not in Overview/Settings Search
Hi, The compose key setting doesn't appear when searching in the Activities Overview or Setting app itself.
Here's some screenshots! (Yeah, you see those Firefox results? I tried A LOT for this lol)
Please consider adding a "Compose Key" option to show up in the Activities Overview and Settings search results, at least as a keyword to bring up the Keyboard tab.
This may be out of scope for this program (maybe for other parts of GNOME, like the shell itself?). That said, I've been copying and pasting from Characters for months in a language class since I never found the Compose key option in GNOME Settings. In general, I just search for settings from the GNOME Overview, so I never tried it in the Settings search bar.
The GNOME documentation on this topic doesn't note that GNOME Settings now has the functionality to set the Compose Key directly. It says to change it in GNOME Tweaks. When I checked, and it wasn't there, I assumed it was removed. Very little online mentions anything about the compose key. When I tried using the dconf method of enabling the key, it failed, then filled my logs with error messages, so that was a no-go...
Anyways, point is: please take adding a Compose Key search term into consideration for future releases of the GNOME Settings application. It would help many dumb people such as myself, and also help smarter people find the real menu faster. :-)
If you can give some basic advice on where to start, I'm happy to PR some changes myself... Or at least look into what changes need to be made in order to fix the problem.
Thank you, Barrett
Steps to reproduce:
- Open GNOME Overview
- Type "Compose Key" in the fun little box
- See nothing :-(
or
- Open GNOME Settings
- Type "Compose Key" in the high-tech little box
- See nothing :-(
I'm running the newest version of Fedora 37, on a MacBook Pro. I am using a patched Asahi kernel, though I doubt that changes this issue. Just in case, here's my system information!