Re: keyboard applet

["Sergey Udaltsov" <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

> Simple regrouping of tabs into different arrangements, at the price of
> nested notebooks or, worse,  notebooks-simulated-by-buttons, is not
> going to solve issue.  Note e.g. that the "repeat keys" settings are
> duplicated on the "basic keyboard a11y" and "keyboard keyboard"
> tabs. This needs some real thought and reorganization.
That's fair. But I really do not know how to represent "layouts" and
"layout options" as something but 2 tabs (nested or not) - of course,
without introducing separate popups. Anyway, I restarted that thread
in order to open the discussion, so if there are ideas on how to move
things around that infamous capplet - please raise your voice!

> Making required functionality DND-only would be considered an
> a11y regression by a lot of people.
I thought about it. But it is actually not a regression because:
- reordering can be done by using add/remove buttons
- the number of layouts is NEVER > 4 and in most cases it is 1 or 2,
so adding removing them is an easy job.
- the _order_ of layouts in switching is not something people would
consider as high priority configuration setting.

So, while I admit there might be some a11y issue here, the severity of
it extremely low; but in return this change allows us to make the
layouts list wider (which is good for some layouts/variants with
lengthy descriptions, for example, some German ones). I guess this is
a reasonably good deal for us.

Cheers,

Sergey