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by md8z 1688 days ago
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.
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p_l 1688 days ago
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.

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md8z 1688 days ago
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.
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irishsultan 1688 days ago
Something like this presumably: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684210#c3
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md8z 1688 days ago
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.
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irishsultan 1688 days ago
Note that I'm not the person who originally brought this up.

I'm posting that because (a) I believe that is the issue referred to, (b) if you look at the reactions there is definitely a lot of "why would you even want this", there is the "lower cognitive load", and they did go ahead with a release in which it was broken, even though it was reported before the release was finalized.

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md8z 1688 days ago
I see all that, but the issue is fixed now. Yeah they made a design mistake and then they corrected it, it doesn't seem to be much different from any other bug. If you are trying to get help with something, it is not particularly useful to cherry pick comments from a long time ago that are not even relevant anymore. I'm sure we could go through the old bug tracker and find various disagreements in other areas, but that won't really help with the status of a current bug.
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p_l 1688 days ago
At one point there was even a patch to IBus pushed by GNOME devs that simply removed such functionality.
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