On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:15:32AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> > If synclient/gsynaptics are insufficient, I'd patch the driver. >> > fdi files as configuration were always frowned upon and were mostly used >> > because of a lack of alternatives. >> >> Hmm, strange. I was kinda basing my approach on the comments in the >> Fedora synaptic package's FDI file... > > we need to leave that in for a bit longer until we have (gui) tools to > configure and manage settings at runtime. > >> Isn't inconcistency worse than breaking this one approach here. At >> present only a subset of input drivers are configurable in xorg.conf and >> others are not. If I have to explain to a user that they cannot set they >> keyboard locale in xorg.conf but they can configure their synaptics >> options, is this not a more confusing response to someone? They feel >> like you just have to "know" in order to know! >> >> This is a genuinely open question by me, I'm not trying to put a >> particular slant on it or push it one way, I'm just a bit confused now >> as to why some drivers work one way and others another. >> >> Perhaps I'm just not seeing the strategy here... what is the intended >> plan moving forward? Push more stuff into hal or less? Or perhaps make >> hal+conf parsing augment each other rather than hal overriding the conf? >> Whatever the plan is, I'd argue consistency should be a key consideration. > > I admit, much of the input stuff so far was fire-fighting, more so than a > grand strategy. It's one of these times when things get worse before they get > better. FWIW, I think we're on the verge of the "getting better" part though.
Allow me to toss out the hotplugged xorg.conf patch I made previously. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041188.html While this does not solve all the configuration problems, it does address the xorg.conf consistency Colin's talking about. -- Dan _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
