What are we going to do about the broken modifiers?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 11:27 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Recent gtk updates have changed the way modifiers are handled and
> therefor broken a lot of applications.
>       * ALT keys are broken in all gtk based terminals. There is a patch
>         for vte available at
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=626792 but even
>         though it works, it seems controversial.
>       * xfwm4 has lost all keyboard shortcuts using CTRL. See bug
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=759478
> 
> Even if the old to handle modifiers may have been wrong, this change
> should not have gone into a stable release, because it breaks a lot of
> applications (at least gnome-terminal, Terminal, lilyterm, sakura,
> termit, terminator, xfwm4) and violates the "Avoid changing the user
> experience if at all possible" rule of our updates policy.
> 
> What are we going to do now? Revert the change in gtk or fix all
> applications?

It seems that 'all' boils down to vte + xfwm. Which seems quite
manageable. I'll see if I can help the vte patch along today. As for
xfwm, it seems clear that it must be doing wrong since accels involving
Control work fine in other gtk2 apps.