On 26/06/2008, at 12:56 AM, Brian Cameron wrote:

>
> Calum:
>
>> Keyboard Indicator: the GNOME keyboard layout stuff is badly broken  
>> on
>> Solaris, and IIRC the maintainer hasn't shown much willingness to fix
>> it, so we don't ship it.
>
> Not true.  This functionality depends on libxklavier, which uses  
> private
> Xserver interfaces that tend to work only with the Xorg Xserver.   
> Since
> Solaris runs on Sparc with the Xsun Xserver, you can have serious
> problems if you do things like run Xclient programs remotely or via
> XDMCP.

But it would be worth revisiting this given that we're moving over to  
Xorg for both platforms? I'd certainly be keen to see it in  
OpenSolaris 2008.11.


Glynn


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