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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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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.

At one point there was even a patch to IBus pushed by GNOME devs that simply removed such functionality.

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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