HAL and INPUT

[Danny Kukawka]

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?).

Danny