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KKBSwitch version 1.4.3 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group. This maintenance release adds Czech translation contributed by Michal Bukovsky and Bulgarian translation contributed by Petko Yotov. Also the algorithm for guessing layout icons was improved a little and now must guess the correct icon in more situations. ... read more

KKBSwitch version 1.4.2 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group.

This maintenance release adds the Hebrew translation contributed previously, as well as a manpage to comply with Debian standards.

A Hebrew translation of KKBSwitch was contributed by Igal aka "Koala". It will be incorporated in the next release, meanwhile interested users can download the translation file from KKBSwitch home page at SourceForge (http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net).

A Gentoo ebuild for KKBSwitch, written by Meir Kriheli, was contributed. The ebuild can be obtained from the KKBSwitch download page at SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92838&package_id=98327&release_id=246798).

KKBSwitch version 1.4 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group.

This maintenance release fixes a bug that could crash KKBSwitch if no window was active when the program started up, fixes the alignment of the system tray icon and adds Slovak translation contributed by Michal Sulek.

KKBSwitch version 1.4 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group.

New in this release:

* Reworked Pick Icon dialog: new look and ability to browse for an arbitrary image file to use as an icon.
* Option "Use per-window layout" is replaced by a more flexible "Layout scope". Now the layout can apply either globally (same as "per-window layout" off), to one window only (same as "per-window layout" on) or to windows of one application (new feature).

KKBSwitch version 1.3.2 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group.

This maintenance release fixes a bug, due to which the config dialog failed to set a icon for a layout, for which KKBSwitch could not initially guess the icon. Compilation fixes where made and a Greek translation was contributed.

KKBSwitch version 1.3.1 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group.

This release restores compatibility with KDE 3.0,
which was unintentionally broken in version 1.3.
Users of KDE 3.0 can now upgrate to version 1.3.1.
Users of KDE 3.1 don't need to upgrade. Also,
Ukrainian translation was slightly updated.... read more

A Debian package of KKBSwitch 1.3 was contributed by Shlomi Loubaton (loubaton [dot] shlomi [at] 012 [dot] net [dot] il). The package is available at KKSwitch project download page, as well as at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/kazit/debs/kkbswitch_1.3-1_i386.deb. Package source at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/kazit/deb_src. Thanks, Shlomi.

KKBSwitch version 1.3 has been released. KKBSwitch is a KDE panel applet which indicates the active keyboard layout (language). It is useful in conjunction with X Servers with the XKeyboard extension which have been configured to have more than one keyboard group.

This is the first release of KKBSwitch to be hosted at SourceForge.

New in this release: - Configurable styles of layout indicator icon;
- Keyboard shortcuts to activate layouts;
- Autostart option;
- Compatibility with Red Hat 9 (which doesn't ship KDE country flag icons);
- Ukrainian translation.