1) This bug is a major one for a big part of the world. 2) It belongs to the part of GNOME that exists solely because GNOME decided to reinvent keyboard input.

1) This bug is a major one for a big part of the world. 2) It belongs to the part of GNOME that exists solely because GNOME decided to reinvent keyboard input. 3) Google shows lots of people aware of the problem (bugreports, stackexchange, whatever) — of course it does, see (1) — but not only no solution, but also I couldn't find any workaround short of using another DE, although — see (2) — disabling the feature altogether would be a decent workaround. Of course all programs have bugs. Do other free programs tend to have bugs of this lasting quality?