Re: Noticed in passing

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:43 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> While testing FC6 test1 I noticed that the
> keyboard layout indicator applet has several
> "interesting" menu items. 
> 
> The first one is "Layout view", which seems to
> be intended to bring up an image of the keyboard
> that is right in front of me, which would be of
> somewhat dubious value even if it worked. Unfortunately,
> it just shows an empty window with Help and Close
> buttons for me (may just be rawhide breakage, though...)
> 
> The second one is "Plugins". WTF ? How in the world
> does a keyboard layout indicator need a plugin system ?!
> And why go to all the length of adding a plugin framework
> when there are no plugins after all ? This looks
> like first-grade overengineering to me.

I'll take this opportunity to whinge about the control center developers
letting stuff like this trickle in, and for not removing obviously
broken features.

-- 
Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
"He should guide Posh in the direction of a singing coach because she's
nowhere near as good at her job as her husband" - Brian Clough, advice
for David Beckham.