Comment 6 for bug 240933

FWIW, I think these gnome bugs illustrate the problem with accessiblity features in gnome. It appears that decisions were made years ago to avoid fixing these problems and complying with the accessX feature set. And my current bug probably is related to the years' old issue in gnome. At least that's my guess from reading these old bug reports:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95656

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131406

Specifically take note of this comment from 10/30/2003 in 95656:

" XKB allows this, but it's
not clear to me that this behavior is important to users. We _do_
know that the second behavior (latch-to-lock OFF) would cause problems
with window navigation in GNOME, so if we do allow the user to switch
between behaviors #1 and #2, we will have to deal with the difficult
problem of fixing the resulting metacity 'regression'."

It seems like gnome has always had the idea that it's too difficult to fix and will cause regressions.