X configuration paradigm, and a proposal
Dave Airlie
airlied at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 21:09:30 PST 2004
>
> I agree that we don't need anything close to the windows "registry";
> it's a death trap. At the same time there should be some hiearchial
> organization of the information. I would prefer the xorg.d directory
> idea proposed elsewhere. Alternatively, an xorg.conf file, if present,
> could override any/all xorg.d settings.
A graphics card driver shouldn't have to knowing about mouse/keyboard
setting etc, so I think splitting the file into separate pieces for
each stanza, so a graphics card installer can just drop its piece into
a directory and not worry about breaking the input devices.. is
probably a good idea...
Dave.
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