HAL and INPUT

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at nokia.com
Mon Jul 9 03:15:59 PDT 2007


On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:08:53PM +0200, ext Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 01:40:16PM +0100, ext Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > Until evdev is used as a default (I'm sure Daniel and Adam have their
> > > opinions on this), pushing the events through HAL as we do know would be
> > > best.
> >
> > Hopefully this can be as early as X.Org 7.3 (released next month).  I'm
> > just finishing the patches up at the moment, but ITMT, here's the FDI
> > I'm running with for your comments/amusement/derision.
> 
> Is it a good idea to put keyboard layout information to HAL like in your file:
> 
>  <merge key="input.xkb_layout" type="string">us</merge>
> 
> This would IMO make only sense if you really can detect the layout of the 
> hardware (is this possible?).

It gives a sane default which can be overridden by local FDIs (populated
either by the local admin, or, e.g. by choices made in the installer).
Saves having the defaults in two places.

Cheers,
Daniel
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