Re: 2 little politically charged characters

["Sergey V. Oudaltsov" <sergey oudaltsov clients ie>]

> script. They simply represent a keyboard layout. Consider
> “dvorak” for instance.
This is what my concern is. That is why I am SO lost at this point:)

The BAD thing is that these layout names are just some weird (unsystematic,
historical) english abbrevations. They would be difficult to localize (they
should be I guess). So I would prefer to leave them as IDs and NEVER show to the
user.

> For the size of the applet, I recommend you lay out each of
> the layout names in a PangoLayout, get the extents, and find
> the largest one, at startup. Then that (plus padding) is the
> width of the applet. I’d probably center the strings within
> the available width. I think it would be acceptable to
> repeat this process when the configuration changes.
Well, I thought about it - but this sounds like some extra hassle which I am not
sure I want to have:) Since Murray thinks it is not a problem (well, I can
believe it is not - for 2-letter representaion) - I would prefer to avoid it.

Sergey