--- Comment #6 from Elad Alfassa <
el...@fedoraproject.org> 2012-09-12 13:33:15 UTC ---
And yes, I am aware that until
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865
is fixed, there won't be a way to fix this issue cleanly. But you must remember
that perfect is the enemy of the good. Most GNOME users type in more than one
language.
Even if you can't read English, you still need English for usernames and
passwords everywhere, so you'd end up having two layouts: English and your own
language (be it Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, or anything else that does
not use the Latin alphabet, and there are many of these).
Switching keyboard layouts is something multilingual users do a lot. sometimes
even in the same sentence. Having to take the hands off the keyboard, grab the
mouse, then clicking on two tiny click targets is slow, inefficient, and hard.
Not fixing this bug in time will clearly hurt every user who uses languages
other than English in their daily computer use.
I think, personally, that this bug should be prioritized, otherwise the whole
"Input Sources" feature will become counterproductive.
Of course, I do not want to be one of those people who starts flamewars,
otherwise I'd publish a link to this bug in mailing lists and social networks.
I don't want to do that because I value your time as a developer of GNOME,
which is by whole an awesome, very well built and designed project.
This long comment was only written to expand on why I think this bug is
critical, I hope nobody is offended or angered by it.
I would be happy to get a detailed answer (or better, a fix) to this. Thank you
for reading this comment.