[Goodies-dev] Set keyboard layout at startup: enhance xfce4-xkb-plugin or a new application?

[Gauvain Pocentek]

Hi,

Christian Dywan wrote:
> Am Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:02:10 +0300
> schrieb Stavros Giannouris <stavrosg at hellug.gr>:
>> I have been thinking for a while to add an easy (read: graphically
>> configured, no root required) way for the user set or change the
>> keyboard layout settings of his/her account.
> 
> there is already XfKC [1] which does pretty much what you are
> describing. The biggest problem is that virtually nobody knows it
> because it is not mentioned anywhere. I do in fact not know if there is
> any active development going on about it. You could do a good job by
> checking how good it really is and promoting it.

In fact it's already been mentionned on the xfce-devel mailing list
recently [1] and there's a patch attached to a bugzilla bug [2] to
include the tool in the keyboard mcs plugin.
And no it's not actively developed currently mainly because I lack time.

Regards,
Gauvain

[1]: http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2007-August/023399.html
[2]: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901