Squeezing "Show Keyboard Status" indicator into KDE 4.2

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns 05 Gener 2009, Sebastian Kügler va escriure:
> On Monday 05 January 2009 14:54:34 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yeah, but we're about to tag -rc1, so it's *really* too late for new
> features. In this case, it also doesn't need to be in 4.2 proper. We've
> just put the weather applet (which is finished as well) into extragear, so
> a released version is available when 4.2 comes out and distros can pick
> that one.
>
> That said, I've been thinking if the release schedule policy for kdeplasma-
> addons shouldn't be relaxed. I don't see any real problems for reviewed and
> tested code to move there, even after the rest of KDE is frozen -- but
> until further notice, it's subject to freeze.

I really don't see why kdeplasma-addons should be different from the rest of 
KDE.

Albert