From kde-core-devel Mon Jan 05 13:54:34 2009 From: Boudewijn Rempt Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:54:34 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Squeezing "Show Keyboard Status" indicator into KDE 4.2 Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=123116365701923 On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Xavier Vello wrote: > > I have spoken with the developer and he is confident that the applet > > is ready to move from review to plasma-addons, someone just needs to > > do it. He hinted that due to the accessibility nature of this issue, > > and the maturity of the applet code, that an exception could be > > granted to squeeze this applet into KDE 4.2. Can this be done? > > I have no decision power, but I think the odds of a freeze exception > this late are near to zero, even more for such "standalone" things > (it's not to be included in a core library, it's something one can > install by hand). > The author should make a release at kde-apps.org and people needing it > can download and install it quite easily. > You can even ask your distribution to package it. The special case here is that is an accessibility feature, which adds quite a bit of weight to the request. Boudewijn