June 30, 2005
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Fedora Core 4 and selinux
Frustrated. FC4 broke some hardware-related software because of the restrictive “targeted” policy. Had to add more rules, like:
allow hald_t usbfs_t:dir read;
allow hald_t usbfs_t:file { ioctl write };
allow bluetooth_t self:socket { read write };
allow bluetooth_t self:socket { accept getattr getopt };
allow bluetooth_t self:capability { dac_override dac_read_search };
allow bluetooth_t self:file read;
So, now hald addon can read wireless mouse battery status, now, bluetooth service can start properly. But noone guarantees that’s the end of the story:(
April 7, 2005
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GNOME
Put together the document summarizing my experience with keyboard-related issues in GNOME. I hope it is useful.
January 28, 2005
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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…
January 24, 2005
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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.
January 19, 2005
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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…
January 14, 2005
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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)…
January 12, 2005
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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).
January 11, 2005
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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…
December 21, 2004
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GNOME
Yesterday I made first relatively large commit of the new keyboard preferences. Basically, the idea is to get rid of the applet properties altogether, move some of them to the control center and leave the rest on the gconf level. So, the screenshots of the first version (withouth preview) are here and here. Comments are welcome (directly or in the mailing lists).
December 15, 2004
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HAL
So, the very first battery daemon is working – and updating the mouse’s battery status. The code is not in CVS yet – waiting for David to commit it there (I know, he first has to do some initial restructuring in 0.5 series). The discussion regarding ACPI in HAL generally shown the WTG – again, just waiting for 0.5 development cycle to start – so I could add ACPI daemon. David, let’s branch 0.4 and start ruinning the HEAD:)
GNOME
I am finally confident that all the Keyboard Indicator Applet’s preferences should go into the g-c-c’s Keyboard Preferences (separate tab, popup dialog – whatever). All these options should be system-wide and should not depend on the fact whether the applet is on the panel or not.
