Re: Sub-tabs in capplets

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

> - General subtab of the layout tab: Should keyboard layout not be combined
>   with input method selection ?  That would be much more logical to me.
>   Of course, that would require us to commit to one input method
>   framework, e.g. scim.
There is logic with combining IM and XKB on user level - but there is
absolutely no way to get rid of XKB altogether. You'd annoy half of
the globe.

> - Options subtab of the layout tab: This tab really  need redesign. It is
>   basically an automatic translations of XKB config file options into UI.
>   We should not allow this to go through a major capplet review without
>   improvements.
I am ok with improvements but please keep in mind these
options/strings/groups etc are entirely driven by the options
available from X server (namely xorg.xml). If you hardcode any of it,
you are creating hard dependency on xorg (i.e. xkeyboard-config) -
even hard dependency on some particular versions (noone promised these
options to be always available and unchangeable).

What I see would be realistic is improving xorg.xml file in order to
make user-visible information easier to understand.

But anyway, I am open to any reasonable options, except probably:
- dropping XKB support altogether in favor of scim
- hardcoding any options/groups names (creating hard dependency)
- dropping layout options altogether

Regards,

Sergey