Comment 17 for bug 2772

The next VLC version has been in the making for a very long time, I don't see it as particularly likely that this VLC branch will stabilize and ship properly before Inteprid Ibex. And even when it does ship there might be people who wants to stay with the old version for just a little while longer until the odd bugs in the new version in ironed out. All in all, it sounds like a good idea to branch the current stable VLC into a special Ubuntu version which has the modified keys only. On the next release VLC can be synced anyway (not merged) because the new branch will have the keys fixed already. Also, it should be extremely easy to add the most common shortcut keys (like "F" and "SPACE" etc), probably a couple of lines of code at most.

Being able to press "F" and "SPACE" would really contribute to the "polished feel" of my Ubuntu desktop. It's one of the few bugs that I actually run into on a regular basis (the other one being bug #21202 ).