On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:16:16 +0100 "Sergey Udaltsov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Yes, technically you are right. The only thing is that XKB API is not > the most comfortable in the world, and it is rather low-level. > Generalizing DBus interface for these things would help app > developers. no - dbus will make things worse. this is X11. this service belongs at the x protocol layer. you don't like xkb? write a library that wraps it and makes it easier. convinve gtk/qt and friends to wrap it up nicely for you, but dbus is entirely the wrong place for this. dbus is for local system services. keyboard mapping is a display server service and thus belongs there. remember you may have apps running remotely from a machine on the other side of the planet over an x connection. how do you expect them to talk to a local dbus instance? dbus is the wrong place for this. > Really, I do not quite understand why you're so opposite to that idea. > The price of it (in GNOME desktop at least) is next to zero - the code > is already there in gnome-settings-daemon (the code which manages XKB > configuration). > > Cheers, > > Sergey > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________ Tokyo, Japan (______ ______) _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
