Bug#497523: HAL way
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:27:40AM +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: rather than editing xorg.conf, one could add /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi like: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? deviceinfo version=0.2 device match key=info.capabilities contains=input.touchpad merge key=input.x11_options.TapButton1 type=string1/merge merge key=input.x11_options.TapButton2 type=string2/merge merge key=input.x11_options.TapButton3 type=string3/merge /match /device /deviceinfo and restart hal/X. That doesn't work on my system. The xorg.conf approach worked though. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#497523: HAL way
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 01:27 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Could this be turned into debconf question? I'd prefer for this to be configured on the desktop environment level, rather than system-wide in hal (makes it easier to move from hal to something else in the future, for one, and actually makes more sense since this is essentially a user preference). Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#497523: HAL way
Hello, On 2009 m. April 17 d., Friday 11:06:36 Julien Cristau wrote: I'd prefer for this to be configured on the desktop environment level, rather than system-wide in hal (makes it easier to move from hal to something else in the future, for one, and actually makes more sense since this is essentially a user preference). Does a typical user expect tapping/vertical edge scrolling to work out-of-the- box or not? I think the answer is definitely YES. So if upstream decided to disable it (for reasons I still barely understand), I think it is a good idea to offer a user to choose another default. At very least, this example is worth to be added to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/examples/ and a note in README.Debian. The bad thing about configuration in DEs is that configuration usually becomes DE-only. I prefer xkb to be configured globally for the settings to be shared among DEs. The same applies to synaptics. As for HAL, when it gets dropped, you will simply update the package. -- Modestas Vainius modes...@vainius.eu signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#497523: HAL way
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:41 +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote: Hello, On 2009 m. April 17 d., Friday 11:06:36 Julien Cristau wrote: I'd prefer for this to be configured on the desktop environment level, rather than system-wide in hal (makes it easier to move from hal to something else in the future, for one, and actually makes more sense since this is essentially a user preference). Does a typical user expect tapping/vertical edge scrolling to work out-of-the- box or not? I think the answer is definitely YES. So if upstream decided to disable it (for reasons I still barely understand), I think it is a good idea to offer a user to choose another default. At very least, this example is worth to be added to /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/examples/ and a note in README.Debian. A patch for that would certainly be appreciated. Note that there's already a NEWS entry about this in git, for which suggestions are also welcome. The bad thing about configuration in DEs is that configuration usually becomes DE-only. I prefer xkb to be configured globally for the settings to be shared among DEs. The same applies to synaptics. As for HAL, when it gets dropped, you will simply update the package. The problem with that if we make it a debconf choice is we'd need to read whatever was configured in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/synaptics-tapping.fdi or similar, and migrate it to the new scheme, be it devicekit or whatever. That means a lot of code in the package that I'd rather avoid. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#497523: HAL way
Hello, rather than editing xorg.conf, one could add /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi like: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? deviceinfo version=0.2 device match key=info.capabilities contains=input.touchpad merge key=input.x11_options.TapButton1 type=string1/merge merge key=input.x11_options.TapButton2 type=string2/merge merge key=input.x11_options.TapButton3 type=string3/merge /match /device /deviceinfo and restart hal/X. Could this be turned into debconf question? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
