Re: Noticed in passing

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

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...)

I requested this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309717

People need it because their layout is often _not_ what's right in front
of them. If it was then we wouldn't need a keyboard layout switcher.

> The second one is "Plugins". WTF ? How in the world
> does a keyboard layout indicator need a plugin system ?!
> And why go to all the length of adding a plugin framework
> when there are no plugins after all ? This looks
> like first-grade overengineering to me.
> 
> Matthias

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