May 6, 2004
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xkbdesc
Yesterday, my tests shown the XKB configuration database is 100% usable in xml->configuration direction, when it comes to models and layouts (with variants). It means all configuration items (listed in xml) can be used without errors caused by the broken data files/rules/…
The options are a bit funny thing to test because it seems XFree ‘accumulates’ options which are set with setxkbmap – so one should blank options between each individual tests. Not a big issue but still a thing to know…
It would also be nice to prepare tests in the opposite direction – check that XML contains really full directory of the available configuration options. Probably this is not critical for the first release…
GNOME Control Center
Looking forward to the discussion (between jody, jrb, and carlos and me) about the keyboard capplet, i18n capplet and all related stuff. Things should be straighten out – the sooner the better.
May 5, 2004
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Uraeus, you are 101% right. Free software does carry values. And people doing it have their values. Being absolutely politically correct would mean having NO values but politicall correctness (because for virtually any other value there can be contra-value – and people which share it). So free software cannot be 100% political correct – because at that point contributors would have to “drop” their ideas, printiples in favor of political correctnes (which is ok for commercial world where people can be payed for it). And – if so – the good problem for GNOME to solve would be to find the margin of “reasonable political correctness” where people would still feel they don’t have to trait their values, their POVs – and where the software would be still ideologically-acceptable for a large audience (which does not necessarily mean 100% of potential users).
May 5, 2004
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The post by Jeff nearly finally convinced me that flags should not go into the GNOME distribution. The only comment I can make is that one of the gswitchit-plugins (this package is not bound to any kind of correctness, including political – and I am not going to resign from it any time soon) will provide the ability to download and use flags on per-user basis (easily and user-friendly though probably not HIG-compliant). So GNOME will remain innocent – and feature-hungry users will get what they want. As simple as that..
May 4, 2004
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Just to test the diary. Is it working at all? И могу ли я использовать русский? Кто знает…
It seems, I can post in Russian – but after that the text is uneditable… At least for the person who can not read Russian in Unicode escaped form…