On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > [...] > > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier' > > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck, > > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with. > > I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but > as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people > won't learn. > > So be happy. You're learning how HAL syntax works. That's good for > you. No? ;-)
<tongue_in_cheek> Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like Driver "evdev" with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">keyboard</merge><match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo> Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files? </tongue_in_cheek> -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
