GNOME keyboard layout handling problems

[Petko Ditchev <pditchev gmail com>]

 Hi everyone , I want to raise some issues I'm having , as a user from 
a non-english-speaking country .

1. Disabling ctrl+shift , alt+shit , etc. shortcuts for switching 
between layouts is IMO a step back in usability . Not to mention that 
everyone and their grandma is used to switch layouts with the now 
depricated in GNOME shortcuts , but the new default is just not easy to 
use on some keyboards (my laptop for example) . And as far as I've seen 
the main reason to change the behaviour like that is not to interfere 
with shortcuts in the apps (and shell) like the ctrl+shift+T to revive a 
tab in Firefox . But that's just not a viable argument - the shortcut 
should be evaluated at key release , which means there's no conflict 
between said shortcuts .

(I know I can switch back with the Tweak tool but that's not the point)

2.There's a bug I posted about some weeks ago , that affects the case 
"Qt5 application on GNOME" . And since I use QtCreator and Qt5 this 
affects both the IDE and my apps . And as a user with more than one 
layout this affects me pretty heavily . Here's the thread on the GNOME 
list : 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2013-August/msg00225.html 
(no reply)
, and on the Qt development mailing list :
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-August/012822.html
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-August/012824.html
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-August/012827.html
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-September/012848.html
http://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2013-September/012849.html

Petko