Comment 11 for bug 110208

I think the GNOME folks' point of view is that most people who have multiple keyboard layouts defined are using some kind of non-latin keyboard. They mention Russian users, etc. Then there's no problem with the remapping - they might want Ctrl-C to still do a Copy even though most keys they type aren't A-Z. The problem comes when you have multiple A-Z keyboard setups defined.

Their suggested workaround is for you to remove the qwerty layout from your list of available layouts - then the problem goes away, apparently. It's pretty inconvenient - I want to be able to quickly switch between Czech (where I can type accented characters) and English (where I can type numbers without holding SHIFT, and where I my fingers can easily find punctuation - the Czech layout doesn't have an @ sign for example, as far as I can tell).