Brian: > The IIIMF applet is already in OpenSolaris and though it doesn't > appear to link xklavier, it's keyboard layout tab says: > > "Use autodetect (does not work in remote environment)" >
The keyboard switcher applet uses xmodmap if libxklavier is not available, so I would bet it is building with this configuration. The xmodmap interfaces are also not standard across different Xservers, so you can have the same sorts of problems using it in this mode as with using libxklavier. > Does iiim also rely on private X APIs? What is the relationship > between IIIM and KeyboardLayoutSwitcher applet? Would > KeyboardLayoutSwitcher provide redundant functionality which is already > provided by IIIM? I think a keyboard switcher would be very useful, > (the fact that we got so many trouble calls on odd combinations of > keyboards and Xservers tells me that many people were using it!) I'm not very familiar with IIIM. I'd bet if you asked Takao, that he could provide some perspective here. > I wonder if it is possible to do this in a supportable way and provide > an interface at least as intuitive as what Sun and Apple had years ago > (e.g. Solaris 7): http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-4123/6j3tmpc73?a=view I suspect it would be, but there's probably not an easy, quick solution. To do this properly, this would likely be a cross-consolidation project. Therefore, it would likely require a high enough priority to get some commitment from the different teams that would need to be involved. Or perhaps the open source community will solve this problem in the meantime. Brian
