Re: Noticed in passing

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:43 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 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...)
> 
> I requested this:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309717
> 
> People need it because their layout is often _not_ what's right in front
> of them. If it was then we wouldn't need a keyboard layout switcher.

I added a comment to the above report that when you right-click on the
Keyboard Indicator applet, then click on Layout View, you can see the
current layout settings.
This is available in at least GNOME 2.14.

Simos

> > 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.
> > 
> > Matthias
>