On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > While testing FC6 test1 I noticed that the > keyboard layout indicator applet has several > "interesting" menu items.
Normally you would expect the installer to setup the "proper" menu items on installation, depending on the locale. If an end-user wants to setup a new keyboard layout, she would try something like > The first one is "Layout view", which seems to > be intended to bring up an image of the keyboard > that is right in front of me, which would be of > somewhat dubious value even if it worked. Unfortunately, > it just shows an empty window with Help and Close > buttons for me (may just be rawhide breakage, though...) The Layout View shows a keyboard where you can press keys and have the corresponding key on the image highlighted. Helpful if you want to figure out what keys are available. You can also view what characters are printed for the current keyboard layout. The layout view looks like http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=68424&action=view It appears that there is some issue with rawhide. > The second one is "Plugins". WTF ? How in the world > does a keyboard layout indicator need a plugin system ?! > And why go to all the length of adding a plugin framework > when there are no plugins after all ? This looks > like first-grade overengineering to me. I am not sure what functionality the plugins are intended for. There is a scheduled IRC session on #xkbconfig, today Friday at 19:00 GMT. See the agenda at https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=19873264&forum_id=43694 Probably the discussion will be repeated during this weekend at a reasonable time for Asia/Australia. Apart from the technical details of gswitchit there will be a discussion about possible integration of the SCIM functionality. The plan is that if all of these make sense, there will be a need for the usability people to help out design better the interface of the keyboard indicator (and Keyboard applet in Control center). I am not sure what Fedora uses for complex input methods. Does it use SCIM or IIIMF or something else? The intended way to use the keyboard indicator is along the lines of http://www.gnome.gr/writing/ See also http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_add_keyboard_layouts_for_other_languages and the following 4 answers for more details. Simos _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
