Comment 4 for bug 292158

I find that forwarding the problem to Brainstorm is a bit of an easy way to get rid of a real problem. I understand that the issue is difficult to grasp if you have never used an AZERTY keyboard, but as a matter of fact, the reaction of people using Ubuntu for the first time is that "the keyboard is broken". See question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/69837 for instance.

To summarize the problem, the Caps Lock implementation in Windows is bugged (it's actually a Shift-Lock). With an AZERTY keyboard, this makes a huge difference, since the digits of the top row are available with "shift", so that is is impossible to lock the access to digits with caps lock, and not possible at all when there is no "num lock" on the keyboard (such as on some laptops). The available option (caps-lock behaves as Shift locked) is confusingly close to the expected Windows behavior, but cannot be used in practice (because it makes the mouse not usable).

The point is not to change the default behavior, but to provide an option to make the "Windows-like" system much easier to trigger. This issue is seen as a bug for most people, so it has to be addressed as a bug -- we have to be able to answer "this is not the default behavior, but you can fix this doing this and this and this" in the forums, again, people coming from the Windows world really consider the keyboard to be broken in Ubuntu.

I confirm the "bug", and I really think it should be considered as a "wishlist" --please, don't believe it's not a bug because it does not affect your keyboard.