Comment 17 for bug 1013881

Yes, I am left handed! So what?

Having RCtrl broken is against the tradition of computer keyboards. It is
against the philosophy of Ubuntu: computer for people – including left
handed, those who are born with two hands, and those who have to type only
with one.

Letting a bug in Rhythmbox is not a good option too.

What does lead to wrongly input nbsp chars if we put it into level 3
instead of level 4?
Most of keyboards use level3, except a Finland one which use «include
"nbsp(level4)"», not «include "nbsp(level4n)"»

I think the the support of nbsp(level4n) is broken in X11.

And really, removing RCtrl is not an option.

2012/6/26 Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>

> Emmanual: reading the upstream bug we have the choice between
>
> - having space input broken in media players (i.e rhythmbox)
> - having rctrl broken
> - having a layout that leads to wrongly input nbsp chars
>
> neiher of those look to good and I'm not sure what's the best solution,
> I will need to check what lucid was doing but
>
> - the rhythmbox issue was solved at this time (not sure if the fix was
> already breaking rctrl there)
> - we really want the rhythmbox issue fixed, so if we have to choice we
> will pick one of the 2 other bugs
> - I'm not sure how many users use rctrl, I'm french and I never used it
> nor saw people around me use ... are you left handed (I'm wondering if that
> reverses usage and if a lefty would use the right ctrl)?
>
> until we get those questions sorted we will stay on the current
> behaviour which seems the less annoying from the ones listed
>
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