Comment 94 for bug 36812

First of all, thanks to all of you guys for your efforts and especially to Ilya fot the patch.
I'm also affected and extremely annoyed by this bug. I've moved to Linux recently and first mentioned, that Ctrl+Shift+T doesn't work in Firefox, and then it turned out, that I can't use Eclipse properly since there are many vital Ctrl+Shift shortcuts there.

And I'd like to be explicit here - IMO it's just a shame that such a STUPID bug is still not fixed after SIX years (it was reported back in 2004!). OK, I understand, it's free software and nobody gets paid for fixing bugs, but denying existing patch for some kind of puristic (not to say religious) reasons - it seems to me, well, strange. How can we claim that Ubuntu (in particular) is user-friendly and "for people" and at the same time preserve such annoying bugs? (another example I've ran into - mystical restriction to have max. of 4 KB layouts in XKB - but at least it's not so common. btw excuse is the same - "the holy spec").

I'm not sure how it aligns with existing procedures, but wouldn't it be possible to apply this patch during packaging Xorg for Ubuntu, so that Xorg packages from standard repos (and their future updates) include this fix?

After all, this bug really affects a lot of people, since there are users outside US as well and almost all of them use layout switching.