Re: Keyboard Layout Switcher applet

[Breda McColgan <Breda McColgan Sun COM>]

Hi Kevin,

thanks for your prompt reply, and for your explanation :)

Can you or Sergey please tell me how to suppress the run-time check, or how
to fool the check into thinking that I've got an older version of XFree, so
that I can invoke gkb-new? I'm scheduled to document gkb-new for GNOME 2.6.

Sergey, if you would like some help with the user documentation for
gswitchit, you can mail gnome-doc-list and ask for volunteers :)

Thanks,
Breda.


Kevin Vandersloot wrote:

> Hi Breda. The applet is still there but under a different name in the
> menu structure - "Keyboard Indicator"
>
> Unfortunately the situation is somewhat complicated. There are two
> keyboard layout applets in the gnome-applets source tree - gswitchit and
> gkb-new. Gswitchit is designed for newer versions of XFree which
> improves the layout switching capability. Gkb-new is the old version of
> the Keyboard Layout Switcher.
>
> What happens now when the user selects "Keyboard indicator", is that the
> applet does a run-time check to see if X is new enough and runs either
> of the two applets. Each of these applets are slightly different and
> have independent help files (their UI are different). I don't think
> gswitchit has any docs yet.
>
> Sergey (in CC list) is the author of gswitchit, and is probably the one
> to contact for the details. Also Jody Goldberg is also knowledgeable
> about the changes.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 15:58, Breda McColgan wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > has the Keyboard Layout Switcher applet been removed from GNOME 2.6, or
> > has the menu structure changed? I've downloaded and built the
> > gnome-applets 2.5.5 tarball, and the Keyboard Layout Switcher applet is
> > no longer in the Add to Panel -> Utility menu.
> >
> > The list at http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/modules doesn't specify which
> > applets are included in GNOME 2.6, and the ChangeLogs don't mention
> > anything about this applet being removed...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Breda.
> >