DBus server for keyboard layouts

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 09:40 +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:49:12 +0100 "Sergey Udaltsov" <sergey.udaltsov at gmail.com>
> babbled:
> 
> > > no - dbus will make things worse. this is X11. this service belongs at the x
> > > protocol layer.
> > I would totally agree unless there would be no things which are not
> > related to x at all - countries/languages. This is higher language.
> 
> the problem is you ask for a specific language - but this modifies an x
> property (key layout) and both local and remote apps will want/need to do this
> - they should work the same way as far as the user goes. so dbus still is the
> wrong place :)
> 
> > > you don't like xkb? write a library that wraps it and makes it
> > > easier.
> > Haha. First, there are several things which are broken in XKB and
> > wrapper cannot fix them without losing network transparency.
> > Especially when it comes to RMLVO-based configuration. Daniel Stone is
> > working on that part - but it will appear (in the very base case) in
> > the next stable version of Xorg. But again - this is all rather
> > low-level matter. The proposed DBus interface trying to deal with
> > higher-level terms which were never handled by X. Should we create
> > another (XLOCALE?) extension instead of dbus service, what do you
> > think?
> 
> you don't even need an extension - setting up a daemon that has an invisible x
> window that listens for x client messages and can advertise state with
> properties on its invisible window (which other apps can find) will do all your
> work for you as if it were dbus - but it lives in x - thus is accessible to
> everyone. you can extend xkb with such a protocol. pretty much the same way
> wm's interact with client windows, copy and paste is done, tray icons are done
> etc.

Alternatively, use the existing XSETTINGS mechanism, and get a good part
of the toolkit support for free.