Hi all Congratulations to everyone here. Now, the life is going under 2.5 number, isn't it? Soon we'll get 1/4 of the GNOME 10. When the release team return back from the pubs, I offer to discuss one little annoying piece of the software - infamous GSwitchIt XKB toolkit. There are 2 most crucial questions: 1. UI and HIG compliance. Some people here expressed the interest in redesign of the glade files - but no real files so far. Anyway, I am always open to the public and private discussion on that matter. Actually, with gswitchit moving to plugin-based architecture, this matter should be reviewed again IMHO. 2. Much more problematic. Support of various X servers. As I've told many times, GSwitchIt shows his best features with XFree 4.3 (and I even explained why, the keyword is "multiple layouts") - so the problem is with commercial servers. Contacting Alan Coopersmith from Sun, I got the answer which did not sound too good to me: *** I looked at it and forwarded it to our i18n & l10n groups. No one commented on it, or even showed any interest in it. It seems reasonable, so we may do it at some point in the future, but we have no immediate plans to do so and many higher priority projects to finish before we do it. *** I'm afraid other big companies (located mostly in US) would not show much interest either:( So my questions are: - Would it make sense to contact HP or any other vendor of commercial X servers and ask them question about their opinion on the problem of multiple layouts? If so, how could I find the contacts? - If commercial vendors do not show any interest, will GNOME still be interested in adopting gswitchit into the core? - Quite possible, commercial X servers have their own approaches to xkb i18n and configuration. Is there anyone here who uses these servers could help me with evaluating gswitchit on non-xfree platform? I remember, in 2.3 development cycle someone claimed gswitchit was offered too late - so I am starting asking bad question on the first day after the release. Regards, -- Sergey
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