Comment 40 for bug 916879

This bug was introduced into Oneiric by an SRU. It's a regression. It was fixed a couple of months ago, yet the fix remains unavailable to the current stable version of Ubuntu, which, as pointed out above, will remain in widespread use for several months yet.

Furthermore, it is a *major* usability bug. Surely <Alt>Tab is one of the most widely used keyboard shortcuts. It's simply impossible to remember to avoid it in order to avoid a crash. I've worked around this bug by switching to Unity 2D, but what about those who aren't so technically inclined? Are they able to work around it? Will they find this bug report and the workarounds posted here?

Normally, I'm not one to add to bug noise by complaining. But this seems to me to be a basic issue of responsibility. I understand that bugs are a fact of life, but if you break it, you should fix it -- especially when the fix is already available, and especially when the breakage was due to an SRU. It seems that someone ought to take enough pride in their work that they take basic responsibility.

I know that these kinds of complaints are generally frowned upon, but what recourse do I have? I don't have the ability to apply the fix myself, and there's no other place I'm aware of that's more appropriate for this purpose.