GNOME
Nasty bug caused by broken pangoxft usage is fixed. Ugh… For a person having very slight idea about pango, it was a bit of fun. Thanks to Owen for the hint – gtk-demo really helped.
XKeyboardConfig
Release 0.6 is really soon now. Unfortunately, during last two weeks I got only one (1!!!) Turkish translation. Translation Project is a bit too slow, I’d say…
xkeyboard-config
Layouts are coming and coming in, xkeyboard-config is getting popular, slowly. It is very difficult to distinguish – which layouts are worth including, which are not. Till that point, we accepted everything – but I’m afraid soon I’ll have to learn the word ‘No’.
BTW, Swedish people – would you mind having Russian phonetic variant in your layout?;) Wouldn’t it be offensive? Same question to the people of the country between Canada and Mexico.
Actually, I would appreciate if someone familiar with the multiple Indian languages (not necessary speaking but being able to discuss the situation) would contact me. svu at gnome dot org, as usual.
Wanted: Openlook-related contacts
A while ago, Sun released openlook to public. Unfortunately, there was a lot of related stuff (DevGuide, deskset, etc) which is kind of lost in the battle. My friend is trying to ressurect the project (on sf.net) – and he would really be interested in this stuff.
So, if anyone from Sun Microsystems reading this blog record knows any contact in the company who could discuss these issues (or original openlook developers) – I’d appreciate that kind of information. The hints will be gratefully accepted at <svu at gnome dot org>. Thanks.
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:(
GNOME
Put together the document summarizing my experience with keyboard-related issues in GNOME. I hope it is useful.
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).