Comment 172 for bug 221112

(In reply to comment #50)
> Could someone create poll on some french(belgian) web site, linux-oriented.
> Which behavior would be preferable?

A poll would be pointless as its representativeness would be very hard to determine.
Most users don't care "as long as it works" and may not even know there is a poll somewhere.

The matter is : French keyboard have, and have always had since the PC keyboards exist (that makes 30 years), 2 similar [CTRL] keys that have the same printed label and are expected to exhibit the same behaviour.

AND THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN SO IN ANY LINUX OR "other OS" keymaps, and especially default keymaps - if anybody wants to customize HER keyboard, then it's HER choice, but by no means a default.

OTOH French keyboard have a left [Alt] key and a right [AltGr] keys having different labels and expected to have different roles.

This is extremely clear. Both [CTRL] keys should act as [CTRL] keys. Left one, rigth one, period.

Some softwares - such as Virtualbox - will want to use the left or right CTRL key for some specific role, and then it's printed in their documentation and the corresponding key is supposed to exist and be correctly mapped. It is nonsense to find oneself with a keymap in which some highly classical and standard key just doesn't happen to exist anymore just because of a once-upon-a-time existing issue (since solved) with a shortcut on a music player that nobody cares about !?!?!? You don't want to break a professional keyboard just because of arguable choices in a toy !