[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 495431] New: ibus Release modifier doesn't work with Alt

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Summary: ibus Release modifier doesn't work with Alt

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495431

           Summary: ibus Release modifier doesn't work with Alt
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: ibus
        AssignedTo: phuang at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: wtogami at redhat.com
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: phuang at redhat.com, fedora-i18n-bugs at redhat.com
            Blocks: 446452,481098,494445
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora
    Target Release: ---


ibus-hangul Bug 494445 requires a hotkey of "press the right Alt button and
release it without hitting other buttons simultaneously" to switch between
Hangul and English input modes.  Implementing a mode in ibus-hangul would take
too much time before Fedora 11, so we agreed to add a temporary workaround
making right-Alt a global trigger hotkey in ibus instead.

Unfortunately, it seems it doesn't work properly.

* Alt_R by itself works, which triggers upon any (release?) event. 
Unfortunately, it also triggers when you don't want it, like Alt_R+F in gedit.
* Release+Alt_R is supposed to work to isolate it as press-and-release hotkey,
except it doesn't.  According to phuang other keys work in this manner with
ibus, but not Alt.

In any case, both the proper fix for ibus-hangul and the ibus global trigger
workaround require Alt + Release isolation to be fixed.

This is a F11Blocker, unless we decide that Bug 494445 cannot be fixed before
F-11.

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