Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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.
Heh.... "-hal" worked just fine for this newbie!
Thankfully, the upgrade guide owned-up to that option.
