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On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > > [...] |
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> > > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier' |
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> > > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck, |
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> > > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with. |
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> > |
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> > I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but |
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> > as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people |
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> > won't learn. |
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> > |
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> > So be happy. You're learning how HAL syntax works. That's good for |
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> > you. No? ;-) |
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> |
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> <tongue_in_cheek> |
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> |
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> Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like |
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> |
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> Driver "evdev" |
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> |
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> with |
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> |
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> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo |
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> version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities" |
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> contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver" |
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> type="string">keyboard</merge><match |
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> key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" |
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> string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver" |
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> type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo> |
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> |
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> |
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> Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? |
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> I mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal |
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> files? |
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> |
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> </tongue_in_cheek> |
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using xml is just the rotten icing on that shitcake. |