On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 11:27 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Recent gtk updates have changed the way modifiers are handled and > therefor broken a lot of applications. > * ALT keys are broken in all gtk based terminals. There is a patch > for vte available at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792 but even > though it works, it seems controversial. > * xfwm4 has lost all keyboard shortcuts using CTRL. See bug > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759478 > > Even if the old to handle modifiers may have been wrong, this change > should not have gone into a stable release, because it breaks a lot of > applications (at least gnome-terminal, Terminal, lilyterm, sakura, > termit, terminator, xfwm4) and violates the "Avoid changing the user > experience if at all possible" rule of our updates policy. > > What are we going to do now? Revert the change in gtk or fix all > applications? It seems that 'all' boils down to vte + xfwm. Which seems quite manageable. I'll see if I can help the vte patch along today. As for xfwm, it seems clear that it must be doing wrong since accels involving Control work fine in other gtk2 apps. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
