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Aral Balkan

Man, you gotta love the attitude of GNOME devs and the whole culture of Linux sometimes, really…

So on Fedora, which ships with Firefox (without codecs so can’t play videos), you can’t delete text with the on-screen keyboard because the backspace key is broken (also in some other apps).

So about that new Linux tablet you got…

Anyway, here’s a video of the bug in this issue from 1 year ago:
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s

But here’s the best bit:

Commenter: Can you prioritize this pls?
Dev: No.

🤦‍♂️

GitLabOnScreen Keyboard Selects and deletes on firefox with backspace (#6340) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab Affected version 43.2 Bug summary The bug is best summarized with the...
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Tariq

@aral

I thought perhaps you had paraphrased, so I had a look.

You're right. The dev said "no".

What an ugly attitude.

Even if this doesn't effect me directly, I'm not going to recommend GNOME to anyone, because this attitude is not something I want to inflict on anyone else, nor reward it.

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