Gee, people didn't test a landscape app in portrait mode with a virtual keyboard? What are the odds. Lets be real, we're talking about a device with a landscape keyboard and an app that requires lots of typing. Who's really going to use a virtual keyboard for typing in xterm? Nobody. Lots of the apps that did get testing were showing problems with the "default" behavior, which is part of why it was voted to switch it.

The change that breaks that one app was breaking lots of other behavior for other apps. Texting and web browsing (two of the major uses for virtual keyboard) were totally hosed because of this default behavior. Yes, ideally one would code in a switch for the behavior, maybe even put it in gconf as to the default behavior (maybe even per-app?). Which is where it looks like things are headed.

You remind me a lot of a one-topic voter in the states. They focus so much on one topic that they're willing to vote in someone completely against their own interests in every category except that one narrow little thing. It's doubly dumbfounding when you know there's a clean solution (downgrading one lib) to getting back the old behavior.