Re: Proposed: gswitchit

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

> Would be nice to have a status report,
So, Jeff, you asked for it:)

Well, technically gswitchit is not a module per ce any more. It was  
split into two parts: the applet (already in in gnome-applets) and ...  
some part of gnome-control-center (currently it works as a part of the  
gnome-keyboard-properties but there is a chance it will go into i18n by  
carlos - first interesting question to discuss here, opinions welcome).  
Some shared code was moved to the library libgswitchit which is just  
virtual module included into both g-a and g-c-c. Yes, GNOME (g-a and g- 
c-c) got extra dependency - libxklavier. So gswitchit did not increase  
the number of tarballs in gnome - and add one tarball into  
dependencies.

About the flags ... well, I will always have a golden bullet in my gun  
for you Jeff. So will Shooby (and many users) I believe. That is it.  
Watch your 6.

Currently, there is a big BIG question regarding gkb-gswitchit  
integration/merge/collaboration. Just a couple of words about the  
matter of problem. We believe GNOME should support environments without  
xkb (or broken xkb - I heard Solaris has it) - so we cannot just get  
rid of gkb applet in favor of gswitchit. We cannot expect user to be  
smart enough to choose the right applet for his environment (out of two  
existing applets) - so user should see ONE menu entry, providing him  
with the best solution (for his money, sorry, his X server). The  
_perfect_ solution would be to teach gswitchit how to live in xmodmap  
world (starting from xmodmap backend in libxklavier). But we are not  
sure it is doable in 2.6 timeframe. That is where we are now. On  
Monday, there will be a meeting at #gswitchit where I hope we'll make  
some final decision. If anyone is interested, has any bright ideas  
regarding gswitchit and/or gkb - welcome at 2200GMT.

Regards,

Sergey