<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Roman Odaisky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:to.roma.from.debbug@qwertty.com">to.roma.from.debbug@qwertty.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
> As the last upstream release was at 2005, and I believe there is a keyboard<br>
> indicator / switch utility, I'm fine with removing this package from<br>
> unstable/testing after the squeeze release.<br>
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To the best of my knowledge, nothing other than kkbswitch provides per-layout<br>
keyboard shortcuts and layout toggle mode in a GUI.<br>
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[...]<br>
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Thus there’s no viable alternative to kkbswitch for such a use case.<br>
Admittedly, it’s uncommon, but not so because it’s not needed; rather, typical<br>
ways of setting up three layouts are inconvenient and users avoid them, not<br>
knowing of kkbswitch. I guess there’s quite a number of users with such a<br>
need, particularly citizens of bilingual countries or those studying foreign<br>
languages (native language + English + another language).<br>
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Besides, kkbswitch is easily configurable via GUI and does its job fine in KDE<br>
4 despite being a six year old KDE 3 application. It just works. Please only<br>
remove it after providing another means of solving the above problems.<br></blockquote></div><br>If someone wants to port kkbswitch from KDE3/QT3 to KDE4/QT4, I'll be more than happy to keep maintaining it. but Debian can't support old libraries for a long times, especially when upstream has newer versions.<br>
<br>Along side the porting, to build the package you'll have to add these packages to build-depends: libx11-dev, libxkbfile-dev, libxext-dev, libxt-dev, libjpeg8-dev<br><br>I'm CCing the kkbswitch author, in case he's interested or know someone who is for doing the porting. Popcon says we have at least 280 installations of kkbswitch.<br>
<br>Kaplan<br></div>