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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:26:03
Message-Id: 200904071325.08049.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
4 > > > [...]
5 > > > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier'
6 > > > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck,
7 > > > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with.
8 > >
9 > > I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but
10 > > as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people
11 > > won't learn.
12 > >
13 > > So be happy. You're learning how HAL syntax works. That's good for
14 > > you. No? ;-)
15 >
16 > <tongue_in_cheek>
17 >
18 > Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like
19 >
20 > Driver "evdev"
21 >
22 > with
23 >
24 > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo
25 > version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities"
26 > contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver"
27 > type="string">keyboard</merge><match
28 > key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name"
29 > string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver"
30 > type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo>
31 >
32 >
33 > Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right?
34 > I mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal
35 > files?
36 >
37 > </tongue_in_cheek>
38
39 using xml is just the rotten icing on that shitcake.

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[gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 7v5w7go9ub0o <7v5w7go9ub0o@×××××.com>
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