need an idea for kxkb (multiple variants UI)

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 07:19, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> ok, so I checked two options: putting number and extending width of kxkb
> tray. Neither work great.
> In case if layout has 3 letters there's no place for anything else
> horizontally and I agree that vertically it's not gonna be visible.
> Extending tray width did not work stable for me.
> So the only solution I would consider "proper" is to add "Display name:"
> field which will provide default "best guess" up-to-3-letters display
> name but will allow user to change it to something he/she likes more
> (again up to 3 letters as more won't fit into tray). The user still be
> able to see full name of layout and variant in menu.

> The only problem with that is introduction of another string to be
> i18n'ned while we're already in message freeze.
>
> I will try to complete the code tomorrow and will post a snapshot along
> with request for approval for new string in kde-i18n-doc.

It is a rather bad time, as in only 2 weeks there is KDE 3.5.2 *and* KOffice 
1.5 RC1.

> If anybody doesn't like this or have better one please let me know.
> Andriy
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