Comment 42 for bug 1245662

In case you didn't know, this bug has hit slashdot.

The only useful comment there, though, seems to be this one: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4959535&cid=46607985 (which seems to reply to comment#5, so I'll quote it:

"I do know that even as a non-disabled user, the behavior Peter describes as "per spec" (that is, mouse buttons are not keys for the purposes of releasing the sticky keys) is counter-intuitive since the modifier keys interact with mouse buttons the same way they do with non-modifier keys (ie. Control modifies selection with mouse clicks the same way it modifies selection with the keyboard). Given that normal interaction with both non-modifier keys and mouse buttons, I'd expect instructions about how modifier keys behave to also apply analogously when both non-modifier keys and mouse buttons (but not mouse movements) are involved. Either that or I would expect modifier keys to not interact with mouse clicks the same way they do with regular keys."

HTH