(In reply to comment #50) > Could someone create poll on some french(belgian) web site, linux-oriented. > Which behavior would be preferable?
A poll would be pointless as its representativeness would be very hard to determine. Most users don't care "as long as it works" and may not even know there is a poll somewhere. The matter is : French keyboard have, and have always had since the PC keyboards exist (that makes 30 years), 2 similar [CTRL] keys that have the same printed label and are expected to exhibit the same behaviour. AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN SO IN ANY LINUX OR "other OS" keymaps, and especially default keymaps - if anybody wants to customize HER keyboard, then it's HER choice, but by no means a default. OTOH French keyboard have a left [Alt] key and a right [AltGr] keys having different labels and expected to have different roles. This is extremely clear. Both [CTRL] keys should act as [CTRL] keys. Left one, rigth one, period. Some softwares - such as Virtualbox - will want to use the left or right CTRL key for some specific role, and then it's printed in their documentation and the corresponding key is supposed to exist and be correctly mapped. It is nonsense to find oneself with a keymap in which some highly classical and standard key just doesn't happen to exist anymore just because of a once-upon-a-time existing issue (since solved) with a shortcut on a music player that nobody cares about !?!?!? You don't want to break a professional keyboard just because of arguable choices in a toy ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013881 Title: Right-Ctrl key broken on French OSS keyboard Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Precise: Fix Released Bug description: Since the version 2.5-1ubuntu1.2 of the package xkb-data, the right CTRL key of the keyboard has ceased to work. The problem started when APT has updated the xkd-data from 2.5-1ubuntu1 to 2.5-1ubuntu1.2. If I switch back to 2.5.-1ubuntu1 using Synaptic, it works back. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: xkb-data 2.5-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu9 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Jun 16 00:16:09 2012 Dependencies: DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: precise DistroVariant: ubuntu InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 17ef:1003 Lenovo Integrated Smart Card Reader MachineType: LENOVO 4243E69 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-25-generic root=UUID=f6981326-31fd-4eaf-b039-3a1e5f33dbc0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xkeyboard-config UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: 8AET56WW (1.36 ) dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available dmi.board.name: 4243E69 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: Not Available dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Not Available dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8AET56WW(1.36):bd12/06/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4243E69:pvrThinkPadT520:rvnLENOVO:rn4243E69:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable: dmi.product.name: 4243E69 dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T520 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36 version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.19.0-0ubuntu1~xup1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1013881/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
