Xorg Input Hotplugging

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Monday 03 December 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Le lundi 03 décembre 2007 à 19:59 +0200, Daniel Stone a écrit :
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 06:53:26PM +0100, ext Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > Le lundi 03 décembre 2007 à 19:37 +0200, Daniel Stone a écrit :
> > > >         <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb,ru</merge>
> > > >         <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">,winkeys</merge>
> > > 
> > > Is the , before winkeys needed?
> > 
> > Yes, otherwise you'll have gb(winkeys) and ru; not gb and ru(winkeys).
> 
> That is seriously broken and user-unfriendly XML :(. Has it been written
> by gconf developers? Is it not possible to do something more intuitive
> like
> 
> <merge sys="input.xkb"/>
>    <layout value="gb"/>
>    <layout value="ru">
>       <variant value="winkeys"/>
>    </layout>
> </merge>
> 

not in (current) HAL. 

> ie something that actually uses XML hierachical nature to describe
> hierarchies? I mean what's the point of inflicting tags on users if
> they're not even used to tokenise properties properly.
> 


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