Julien Cristau wrote: > > hal breaks existing working configurations without warnings. The simple > > test case is using a non-US keyboard properly configured as such in > > xorg.conf. Introduce evdev/hal and watch users get frustrated. The > > problem of course: keyboard layout cannot be auto-configured. But why > > ignore existing configuration? > > > we don't ignore existing keymap configuration, and you get the same > layout after the upgrade as was configured in xorg.conf.
I a) got an english keyboard instead of a german one b) sudently lost my ~, | etc. with the upgrade. I would not call that preserving the configuration, honestly. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org