This needs also a fix in metacity, updated the bug information
accordingly.

** Also affects: metacity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
-  * An explanation of the effects of the bug on users and:
-    Setting the 'Input Source Options' to 'Allow different sources for each 
window' does not work.
+  * An explanation of the effects of the bug on users and:
+    Setting the 'Input Source Options' to 'Allow different sources for each 
window' does not work.
  
-  * justification for backporting the fix to the stable release:
-    This is a bug in Ubuntu Bionic's version of gnome-flashback (3.28) 
(because the GUI let's the user change the input source option but the backend 
does nothing)
+  * justification for backporting the fix to the stable release:
+    This is a bug in Ubuntu Bionic's version of gnome-flashback (3.28) 
(because the GUI lets the user change the input source option but the backend 
does nothing)
  
  [Test Case]
  
-  * detailed instructions how to reproduce the bug
-    - Set Input Source Options to Allow different sources for each window in 
Application->System Tools->Preferences->Settings->Region & Language->Options
-    - Realize that if you set different layouts for different windows it does 
not change automatically when changing windows.
+  * detailed instructions how to reproduce the bug
+    - Set Input Source Options to Allow different sources for each window in 
gnome-control-center -> Region & Language -> Options
+    - Realize that if you set different layouts for different windows it does 
not change automatically when changing windows.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
-  * discussion of how regressions are most likely to manifest as a result
+  * discussion of how regressions are most likely to manifest as a result
  of this change:
  
-   This bug itself is a regression, because it was working in Ubuntu
+   This bug itself is a regression, because it was working in Ubuntu
  Trusty.
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+ 
+ This needs fixes in both gnome-flashback and metacity.
+ Here are the relevant commits in gnome-3-28 branches:
+ 
+ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/commit/b96341dabffc3589 (ensure that 
we ignore our own focus events for focus predictions)
+ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/commit/9956d376d38d0ad6 (fix problems 
with focus tracking)
+ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/commit/3c4c6ecddef48cd5 
(implement per window input sources)
+ 
+ The gnome-session-flashback dependency on metacity will be bumped.

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  Input source options does not work on Bionic with gnome-flashback

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