ANNOUNCE: gswitchit_applet 0.92, libxklavier 0.2, xfree86_xkb_xml



This announce can be interesting to some strange people still using
GNOME 1 with non-default XKB layouts.

After several months of development and discussing, new version 0.92 of
the famous XKB state indicator GSwitchIt is released. Now users have to
install brand new library libxklavier targeted as universal toolkit for
any XKB-oriented software (for KDE/Gkrellm/WindowMaker/CDE/...). 

Also, this release introduces XML-based XKB configuration registry.
Hopefully, this registry will be later incorporated into XFree 4.3.0 -
but for a moment just install it separately.

What's new:
- XKB configuration capplet. Now each user can have its own XKB
configuration without dealing with personal XFree configuration files.
  
- Separation of the library caused major internal changes. I expect a
lot of bug reports...

As a bonus feature, new capplet offers preview of the configuration
using xkbprint utility and GGV. Actually, any bonobo control for
postscript would be OK but, for a moment, only GGV 1.1.96 is suitable.

Great credits to:
  Ivan Pascal and Andriy Rysin - for hot discussions in
gswitchit-kxkb lists sourceforge net
  Jaka Mocnik - for GGV 1.1.96

So, the final thing - where to get it. Since
http://gswitchit.sourceforge.net/ is not updated yet - just go to
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gswitchit.

Eagerly waiting for bug reports,

Sergey




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