[Kde-accessibility] Squeezing "Show Keyboard Status" indicator into KDE 4.2

[John Layt]

On Friday 02 January 2009 23:45:51 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Due to disability, I cannot move to KDE 4.x until this issue is resolved:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165402
>
> 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? KDE
> 3.5.10 (my current desktop) is no longer supported by my distro and
> remaining with the KDE 3 branch means that I will have other, more
> critical software outdated on my production machine.
>
> Thank you.

Hi Dotan,

The place to ask would actually be the kde-core-devel mailing list where such 
things are handled, but I suspect it will be just too late for this now 
(policykit-kde was recently rejected for late inclusion).  

I think your best chance would be to actually request your distro to package 
it separately.  I think you're on openSUSE, right?  There shouldn't be too 
much issue getting it included, perhaps even back-ported, if not in the 
official repos then somewhere in the Build Service.

Cheers!

John.