Some of my thoughts on input for wayland

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> schrieb:
> 2011/1/25 Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>:
> > I'm wary of a "config" file the window manager reads. What users want to do
> > is go into the application and run some control panel that says "now the
> > shortcut X+Y+Z does this" and it starts happening, and they can then change
> > their mind and it goes back to the way it was before. Having to write a file
> > to do this and signal the compositor that it changed does not sound like a
> > very nice design.
> 
> The compositor can just use inotify to watch changes on the file, much
> like the way Compiz does so.

Please keep in mind that inotify only works (reliably) on local
(and *maybe* a few remote) filesystems.

I'd rather suggest adding a little 9P fileserver to the compositor,
where such configurations can be directly written in.


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