On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Roman Odaisky < to.roma.from.deb...@qwertty.com> wrote:
> > As the last upstream release was at 2005, and I believe there is a > keyboard > > indicator / switch utility, I'm fine with removing this package from > > unstable/testing after the squeeze release. > > To the best of my knowledge, nothing other than kkbswitch provides > per-layout > keyboard shortcuts and layout toggle mode in a GUI. > > [...] > > Thus there’s no viable alternative to kkbswitch for such a use case. > Admittedly, it’s uncommon, but not so because it’s not needed; rather, > typical > ways of setting up three layouts are inconvenient and users avoid them, not > knowing of kkbswitch. I guess there’s quite a number of users with such a > need, particularly citizens of bilingual countries or those studying > foreign > languages (native language + English + another language). > > Besides, kkbswitch is easily configurable via GUI and does its job fine in > KDE > 4 despite being a six year old KDE 3 application. It just works. Please > only > remove it after providing another means of solving the above problems. > If someone wants to port kkbswitch from KDE3/QT3 to KDE4/QT4, I'll be more than happy to keep maintaining it. but Debian can't support old libraries for a long times, especially when upstream has newer versions. Along side the porting, to build the package you'll have to add these packages to build-depends: libx11-dev, libxkbfile-dev, libxext-dev, libxt-dev, libjpeg8-dev I'm CCing the kkbswitch author, in case he's interested or know someone who is for doing the porting. Popcon says we have at least 280 installations of kkbswitch. Kaplan
