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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:17:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904071317.21216.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <grfbrt$f88$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Tuesday 07 April 2009 13:02:28 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > [...]
> > but my real problem is that hal crap. In their fight to make x 'easier'
> > they make it harder. keyboard layout is incorrect? well, bad luck,
> > because hal's files are a bitch to deal with.
>
> I suppose the intention was for GUI tools to do the configuration, but
> as usual in Linux (:P) no one bothered because that would mean people
> won't learn.
>
> So be happy.  You're learning how HAL syntax works.  That's good for
> you.  No?  ;-)

<tongue_in_cheek>

Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like

  Driver         "evdev"

with

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><deviceinfo 
version="0.2"><device><match key="info.capabilities" 
contains="input.keys"><merge key="input.x11_driver" 
type="string">keyboard</merge><match 
key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" 
string="Linux"><merge key="input.x11_driver" 
type="string">evdev</merge></match></match></device></deviceinfo>   


Is so OBVIOUSLY the correct way to go, and so OBVIOUSLY much easier. Right? I 
mean, what kind of twit do you have to be to not understand the hal files?

</tongue_in_cheek>

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-07  8:39 [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 Mick
2009-04-07  8:46 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 10:26   ` Mick
2009-04-07 10:46     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 11:02       ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-07 11:17         ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2009-04-07 11:25           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-08 15:01             ` 7v5w7go9ub0o
2009-05-15 15:55             ` Tony Davison
2009-05-16 16:33               ` Mick
2009-04-07 13:08       ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-04-07 10:53   ` Peter Humphrey
2009-04-07  9:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-04-07 10:34   ` Mick
2009-04-07 10:21 ` Khanh Nguyen
2009-04-07 14:14   ` sean
2009-04-07 14:51     ` Paul Hartman
2009-04-07 15:22       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 15:50         ` Paul Hartman
2009-04-07 16:31           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 18:12             ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-04-08 15:45             ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2009-04-08 16:12               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-08 16:18                 ` Paul Hartman
2009-05-15 16:03                   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-15 16:10                     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-15 16:41                       ` Dale
2009-05-15 16:59                         ` Paul Hartman
2009-05-15 17:26                           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-15 17:42                           ` Dale
2009-05-15 16:42                       ` Dale
2009-05-15 16:57                         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-15 17:45                           ` Dale
2009-05-15 20:05                           ` pk
2009-05-15 20:24                             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-05-15 20:38                               ` Aaron Clark
2009-05-15 20:39                               ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-15 20:38                             ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-05-15 20:44                               ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-15 20:51                                 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2009-05-15 20:54                                   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-16 17:14                                     ` pk
2009-05-16 17:55                                       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-16 18:10                                         ` Dale
2009-05-17 17:10                                           ` bn
2009-05-17 18:00                                             ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-17 18:16                                               ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-17 19:12                                                 ` Dale
2009-05-17 19:22                                                   ` Mark Knecht
2009-05-17 21:20                                                     ` Dale
2009-05-18  4:07                                                     ` was [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 now old nvidia drivers Adam Carter
2009-05-18  4:22                                                       ` Dale
2009-05-18  5:00                                                         ` Adam Carter
2009-05-17 18:21                                               ` [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 bn
2009-05-17 19:02                                             ` Dale
2009-05-17  1:33                                         ` pk
2009-05-17  9:19                                           ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-17 12:15                                             ` pk
2009-05-17 14:32                                               ` Alan McKinnon
2009-05-17 21:47                                             ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 15:52         ` [gentoo-user] " Joseph
2009-04-07 16:16           ` Neil Bothwick
2009-04-07 16:17           ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-07 23:13           ` [gentoo-user] " sean
2009-04-08 18:16             ` pk
2009-04-07 16:14         ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-04-07 16:45         ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2009-04-07 17:02           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 17:21             ` Mick
2009-04-07 20:27             ` sean
2009-04-07 20:32               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-04-07 17:05           ` Sebastian Günther
2009-04-07 17:17             ` Mick
2009-04-07 20:37           ` Daniel Barkalow
2009-04-08  5:47             ` Mick

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