GNOME
Continuing Hubert’s complains, I would like to add the one, the most important for me: ability to work with the Jabber agents(transports). Currently for me it is a showstopper for using Gaim as a Jabber client. Gaim will never be a serious player in the Jabber world without this one…
GNOME
Now the applet really supports transparency. And surprizingly this works BAD. Because the applet is really transparent – user cannot see it, especially if he has some funny desktop background (like I do) with the colors close to gtk text labels. What’s the use for the indicator which you have troubles to find on your desktop?… Using the Highlighter plugin (from CVS), you can make the applet visible again – but the default behaviour makes it unusable.
GNOME
I really like the way layout options are going to look soon(thanks to John). If only usability people don’t say their sound and almighty “no” voice…
libxklavier and xkeyboard-config
Concerned… We are looking ok in the PC keyboards department (well, there are things to do – but basically it it is all going nicely). The non-PC vendors are still problematic. Folks are looking to the Mac keyboards, which is really really great, but other Unix workstation vendors (like Sun/HP/SGI…) – we did not touch theml 🙁 Don’t they want to donate us something old from their garbage bins?:) Actually, hardware X terminals would be nice to play with (from the XKB-less envinonment POV)…
GNOME
Yesterday I found time to perform some cleanup and optimization in the gnome keyboard indicator. The multiple instances are managed in a more efficient way now (a lot of stuff is made global instead of per-instance). Also, I found that gnome-applets 2.9.4 contain buggy version of the libgswitchit (my fault, forgot to commit a couple of days ago) – in case someone really starts using multiple applet instances, it may crash. But the greatest thing of all – the gswitchit plugins work again – due to the yesterday’s cleanup (now there is only one plugin manager and plugin container for all the applet’s instance).
GNOME
So, 2.9 is starting to freeze. The keyboard stuff is in a reasonably good shape. The only thing which bothers me is that yesterday I fixed long outstanding bug with the multiple applet instances – and now the plugins are effectively broken. Expecting some number of bug reports regarding this…