For some reason, I found myself using the 'fr oss' layout in Gnome 3.10.
And I must say that finding out that this layout was picked as the
default left me speechless: two keys on my keyboard no longer behave
according to what's *on* the actual key:

 - the right control key, which just says "Ctrl", just like its left 
counterpart,
 - and the keypad's del/dot key which has an actual dot on it, not a comma

Both of those changes are incomprehensible. Whether *alternative*
layouts exist to provide new mappings is of no issue to me. But a layout
touted as the default layout should respect what's *engraved* on
keyboards.

FTR, the original 'fr' layout also has that keypad dot/comma issue but
not the right control mapped to Level5, but at least there's an
"kpdl:dot" option to fix the former. So I fumbled through Gnome's ever-
changing control panel and managed to change back to it.

(In reply to comment #46)
> For me it does.  My keyboard has an "Alt Gr" label on the AltR key, so it
> indeed is expected to behave differently from Alt_L, but my ControlR key is
> labeled as "Ctrl", just like the ControlL key.  And all other keyboards and
> OSes I ever used did handle ControlR the same as ControlL, as far as I was
> concerned as a user.

+1, all the French PC keyboards I have owned for the past 15 years have
been like this. I can only add my voice to let it be known that having
to fix my keyboard layout for correct operation was quite upsetting.

Anyhow, thanks to all for looking into it.

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  Can't use space bar in search bar when using french alternative
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