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? ;-) > > <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>
using xml is just the rotten icing on that shitcake.
