On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 09:01:48AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> These patches add support in xorg.conf to apply input configuration to a >> class of devices by property. The idea is to offer similar property >> matching capabilities to the hal fdi system. Moving the configuration >> back into the ddx means that some day we can stop doing it from the >> config backend and asking users to adjust to it. >> >> The mechanism used here is an InputClass section. Here is a contrived >> example section showing all the current property matchers: >> >> Section "InputClass" >> Identifier "My Mice" >> >> DevicePattern "/dev/input/event*" >> NameContains "Mouse" >> IsPointer "yes" >> IsKeyboard "no" > > Please namespace any matching rules, the above examples could e.g. be: > MatchDevicePath > MatchName > MatchIsPointerDevice > MatchIsPointerDevice > > This way we can easier differentiate between match rules and driver options.
Seems reasonable. > Aside from that, I think we really need the ability to have a split up > configuration file first (the xorg.conf.d you mentioned) before we can merge > this. Stacking multiple match rules into a single file and expecting distro > maintainers to somehow now screw up when editing a user's config file > requires more optimisim than we should expect to encounter. Yeah, I'd agree there. I don't want scripts attempting to edit the user's configuration file any more than the next guy. I'll give a holler when I have that worked out. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
