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30 Aug 2004

XKeyboardConfig/Freedesktop

Why oh why on Earth xlibs is locked on fd.o cvs????

10 Aug 2004

GNOME Control Center/GNOME Keyboard Indicator

Yesterday there was a good talk oт IRC – with the GDP folks. Two major issues were discussed:

• Integrated help.

• Unclear, too technical wording.

I am really glad we finally started dealing with them.

28 Jul 2004

GNOME Control Center

The layout preview is now in the separate window (with autohiding on the irrelevant tabs). And it looks much better since it actually shows two levels, not “one as two”.

Also, keyboard models are chosen from the popup window. If only we could structure them on per-vendor basis. But this is another story…

26 Jul 2004

XKeyboardConfig

Now, 0.3 is out. Hurray. But it is not perfect still. Some missing things:

• vendor info in the xml file
• USB (and nonUSB?) ids in the xml file – for both vendors and geometries
• restructuring of the variant ids – similar to what we did for layout ids
• restructuring of the descriptions and short descriptions

Will it all fit into 0.4? Who knows…

20 Jul 2004

XKeyboardConfig

Thanks to Ivan’s explanations, the compatibility rules are now working somehow. The overall solution is nearly a nightmare – 19(!!!) *.part files instead of one (and also new compat directory). Well, at least I can manage it all in this form. The only annoying thing is one little bash-ism in the build script – but hopefully I’ll get rid of it soon. And then, finally, there will be 0.3…

14 Jul 2004

GNOME Control Center

Just merged the keyboard layout preview branch into the HEAD branch. Expecting to get killed tomorrow for breaking something important. Currently, it looks like this and this – but most probably will be changed soon.

05 Jul 2004

ADVOGATO IS BACK. HURRAY!

XKeyboardConfig

We are approaching to the next release. The massive amount of work was done. The intltool issue is more or less straighten out, thanks to Daniel. The ex-“yu” layouts are moved to “srp” (former “sr”) – after the moderately hot discussion between Daniel and Frank. Now, the only thing which bothers me is the compatibility rules. It seems the rules engine is not as good as I’d love to see it :(.

27 May 2004

Fedora Core 2

Hurray, the upgrade from FC1 was as smooth as I could only dream of. Despite the fact that a lot of GNOME packages I had were not Fedora’s original ones (BTW, thanks to Matt Hall for his GNOME repository). Also, thanks to him again for the latest bunch of the shiny new GNOME packages for FC2.

Bad important news: x.org server is broken in FC2. There is missing link from xorg.xml to xfree86.xml – it causes problems for people having XkbRules “xfree86”.

Also, I recently discovered serious xkb problem with Accelerated X – it does not set XKB_RULES_NAMES. GNOME 2.6 simply NOT going to work with broken XKB implementations (while it should work without XKB at all – so just disable XKB if it is broken).

XKeyboardConfig

So, the announce of 0.1 is made. Now all we can do is wait for feedback from the communities.

26 May 2004

Federico made a very good point (or rather list of points?). I think GNOME needs some process of certification – and the list of “good citizens”. Not all of them should be included into the official GNOME desktop (for obvious reasons) – but at least GNOME could point users/distromakers to the “recommended” applications.

26 May 2004

XKeyboardConfig

Ugh. Yesterday uploaded xkeyboard-config 0.1 tarball. Drafted the announcement – and posted it to the private club xkb@listserv.bat.ru. If the guys approve it, tonight I will broadcast it. Scary thing – the very first release of the project:)