From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lr9RL-0000u6-9t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:26:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0085DE0438; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f163.google.com (mail-ew0-f163.google.com [209.85.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5FAE0438 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:25:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so2085004ewy.34 for ; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:25:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=hW3R/pJ+pX2woBSub027k+/NUnN0x3ANiVXjWPx4Kg0=; b=ecoerqCND+V/nL+h49DY/ypcUdvIMVzUgD4rsolsdsCJlHkEcmlGZkqo5KNVjC0IOs lUaAQVLthM0rgW0k8a8TeKtnKBFUn8oVvU6c8AP4glf1kr6PoY8IvfHdvEkxDQRrQxPX LE5Arrtjv0xyW8OZ6FDP0UsRq2+KO1hGESSgM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=mWq6jWQhXZdjlar0bPEwwyqEwYTSBjnP+bliQMS4F4ooe70A5MYArkpQ8uvqOkzfJX iuoKbhdDHElbDRASwC7ddN0+tgRLBWXiQhpkGYa7hPJMqMwWHwm13w+olp57q5fbsqry X3K5ygTy1YSidZjSy9cWSSfMsaDvG7r9DZ+us= Received: by 10.210.30.10 with SMTP id d10mr4729ebd.64.1239103513077; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 24sm5802942ewy.1.2009.04.07.04.25.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:25:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann 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 13:25:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.28.7r4; KDE/4.2.68; x86_64; ; ) References: <200904070939.57495.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200904071317.21216.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200904071317.21216.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200904071325.08049.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ae515040-a07e-4497-b079-9638ba8be7c2 X-Archives-Hash: 42a827185c0495b4058658d7d195a7b8 On Tuesday 07 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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? ;-) > > > > Yes, it's wonderful. Let's face it, replacing something like > > Driver "evdev" > > with > > version="0.2"> contains="input.keys"> type="string">keyboard key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" > string="Linux"> type="string">evdev > > > 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? > > using xml is just the rotten icing on that shitcake.