On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:43 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > 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. > > > > 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...) > > I requested this: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309717 > > People need it because their layout is often _not_ what's right in front > of them. If it was then we wouldn't need a keyboard layout switcher.
I added a comment to the above report that when you right-click on the Keyboard Indicator applet, then click on Layout View, you can see the current layout settings. This is available in at least GNOME 2.14. Simos > > 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. > > > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
