Squeezing "Show Keyboard Status" indicator into KDE 4.2

[Boudewijn Rempt]

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