Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.12.8-1 Severity: normal I'm trying to improve my typing speed and reduce the stress in my wrists and fingers, which involves switching to a Dvorak-like keymap. For French, the only maintained keymap is the "bépo" one, which is the one I'm therefore likely to choose (but the problem happens for others, I'm just picking bépo for the sake of example).
I'm used to the azerty keymap, which is my default keymap and goes something like this: ,---- | azertyuiop^$ | qsdfghjklmù* | <wxcvbn,;:! `---- The bépo keymap currently looks like this: ,---- | bépoèçvdlfjz | auie,ctsnrm^ | êàhy.k'qgxw `---- Since I'm far from fluent in bépo yet, I keep both layouts, and switch from one to the other depending on whether I need to type something right now (azerty) or whether I can afford to type slowly for some time (in which case I go hunt and peck on bépo). Unfortunately, Gtk apps don't seem to like me for doing that, and the shortcuts for applications stick to where the keys are located in azerty even when I'm using bépo. For instance, if I want to select all text in a Gtk app, I type Control-A, with A being the first letter on the second row. Unfortunately, Gtk interprets that as azerty, where the first letter in the second row is Q. So what actually gets executed is Control-Q. *Bam*, the application quits. If I'm in a shell and I want to Control-C to cancel the command I'm currently typing, what actually happens is Control-J, and what I'm trying to prevent from happening is executed. Global keybindings are affected too, so I need to type Control-Alt-N (N being where bépo stores it) to lock my screen, since the shortcut is configured to be Control-Alt-L. That bug has been reported upstream as http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726 about three years ago. Apparently upstream doesn't want to fix that, claiming it's a feature. While I can understand their argument from a pure Gnome point of view, I believe that behaviour should be considered a bug (and fixed) in Debian. My rationale is that Debian has always been about integration, so it's very common to have Gtk apps running at the same time as apps using other toolkits. Having shortcuts as common as Control-C on different keys depending on the application is extremely confusing, as is the fact that typing a C and typing a Control-C involve different keys. This bug renders the ability to have several keymaps useless, in my mind. Roland. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcomerr2 1.40.7-1 common error description library ii libcupsys2 1.3.6-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.2.2-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgtk2.0-common 2.12.8-1 Common files for the GTK+ graphica ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.0-1 X11 Composite extension library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.1-3 X11 damaged region extension libra ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 recommends: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.10-1 default fallback theme for FreeDes ii libgtk2.0-bin 2.12.8-1 The programs for the GTK+ graphica -- no debconf information
