Re: Noticed in passing

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 15:27 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 09:56 -0400, JP Rosevear 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...)
> > 
> > We've seen this problem in suse with xgl too:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7137
> > 
> > Not sure if its the same or not.
> 
> I think it is a situation of not upgrading to xkeyboard-config,
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fXKeyboardConfig
> 
> AFAIK, xkeyboard-config is not part of the default Xorg yet, so you have
> to install separately. There have been discussions for this last year
> (during Xorg pre-7.0 but it did not make it).

Hmm, the fragility of the whole XKB crap tower has bitten
us in the past, and its doing it again...