[md8z]

Just FYI. If your suggestions for "making it better" for yourself would be making it worse for other users, then that probably would be why your suggestions weren't taken. GNOME has made accessibility a priority for a while now, so that is why the interaction with the mouse has been done the way it is. (Disclaimer: I am not a GNOME developer, this is just my observation)

[p_l]

More than once the suggestions weren't breaking accessibility at all, and at least once it was GNOME devs deciding unilaterally that they know better than users who will face accessibility issues due to their changes.

[md8z]

Can you please give an example? Keep in mind that if a change fixes some accessibility issues for some people but then causes other accessibility regressions elsewhere, that could also be bad and not wanted. Nobody wants to be the person to make that decision and deal with the angry users, but sadly, somebody has to do it unilaterally otherwise development on the project will not happen.

Really now, if your stance is "it is bad for an open source maintainer to make decisions that might be difficult" then it seems you would have trouble finding any project that suits you.

[p_l]

Forcing single IME state globally and attempting to remove even the possibility of using per-window/application state in IBus. Mind you, this was removing the option, those who preferred single global state already could do so.

The argument was that it would lower cognitive load, without any evidence backing it up, and obviously with no input from people who regularly have to mix different input systems - where the ability for IME state to match context of the window they are in, especially as sometimes the different tasks in different windows would have incompatible needs on current IME state.

[md8z]

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, I still see an option for "Allow different input sources for each window" in the keyboard settings panel.

[irishsultan]

Something like this presumably: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684210#c3

[md8z]

I really don't understand why you are posting this, this is a 9 year old bug that is marked fixed. Please read the rest of the comments on the bug beyond that one and please don't make me regret asking these questions, I'm feeling like my time is wasted when people post these bugs without checking them.