Comment 91 for bug 36812

I talked to the people from #xorg-devel on FreeNode today about the status of Ilya's patch

<daniels> i'm inclined to not apply it, as it directly contradicts the xkb spec, and is also apparently buggy (see the upstream bug report with some people complaining that it breaks occasionally)
<saaska> and who makes the xkb spec?
<daniels> well, us. we could change it, but there's not much point in a spec which changes ...
<saaska> mm and what would cause you to look further into this?
<daniels> well, we could write the spec better for xkb2 ;)
<daniels> yeah, i'm not personally affected by it as i only use US layout
<daniels> i can see that it sucks, but otoh i don't like contradicting the spec for no good reason
<saaska> you don't notice it if you don't switch languages
<daniels> well, i notice all the affected users in my inbox :P
<saaska> i'd even go as far as to say it's a major annoyance with layout-switching people
<daniels> understandable

To me this looks like it's not gonna be fixed any time soon. I hope xkb2 spec is somewhere around the corner. Oh well...