On Monday 25 June 2007 09:50, Daniel Rozsnyó wrote: > Lourens Veen wrote: > > On Sunday 24 June 2007 18:39, Attila Kinali wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 May 2007 10:39:15 +0800 > >> > >> "Rogelio Serrano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Ok if you have seen the freedesktop pages somebody is thinking of > >>> moving x11 to dbus. now thats totally unacceptable. > >> > >> Any url with that? > >> But even then, i wouldn't believe it. Who ever has said that > >> has no understanding whatsoever what X11 and what D-Bus is. > >> Both are in their needs and implementations quite ortogonal. > > > > Well, if the kernel uses DBus to notify userland of changes in the > > hardware configuration, then it makes perfect sense for the X > > server to listen to the kernel via DBus and update its input device > > configuration accordingly. > > I hope some day it will be able to extend the desktop without need of > extensive configuration and restart. Something like dynamic > multi-head (not only turn on/off pre-configured screens, but support > choosing the resolution, in a way like Windows does). And also some > support for connecting graphic output on the fly.. for the > usb/ethernet graphic cards/monitors.
The technical term for that is "Hotpluggy Sweetness". See Keith Packard's presentation at [1]. I'm not sure when the latest Xorg release was and whether it was included, but it's close if not there already. Lourens http://conference2006.kde.org/conference/talks/47.php
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