Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 14:11 +0000, Beso wrote: >> just look at the >> evdev driver. i think that after its development >> the usability of keyboards and mouses has increased quite a lot. now i >> cannot see a reason to switch back to kbd + >> mouse instead of evdev. > > I see one: keyboard layout isn't recognized nor easily configured, so at > login screen you're stuck with a qwerty keyboard. > Otherwise it's perfect.
I think the real question here is who is responsible for this. IMO the distro's have to step up to the plate here. Certainly in Mandriva we have configuration tools (drakconf) to manage things in a fairly central way. Other distros use tools provided in Gnome or KDE to do this, but most of these take effect after the DE has started (I could be pretty off-base here so please forgive me if this is perhaps an over simplification). In Mandriva it will be fairly simple to write a tools into our drakconf that would take /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi, copy it to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ and edit the keymap to the correct local flavour. Our installation wizard already asks the necessary questions and we keep the answer in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard so even upgrades can have the correct file written for them. Is this something that should be left up to distros to do? I don't know. Paulo (PCPA) was talking about an option that could be put in to xorg.conf that would allow setting of the default keymap via an Option in e.g. ServerFlags section. Is this wise or is this just spreading the config around the place (bits of it in HAL, some in xorg.conf). Is it already the case that config is spread around? IMO distros have to shoulder some responsibility here. A recent example has been pulseaudio integration into the desktop. Some distros did very little work here (the Ubuntu LTS was particularly poor IIRC, with the latter version making up for that mistake). At Mandriva, I personally took a lot of time to ensure good integration and I know that RedHat and Debian did likewise. So is this input config stuff something that distro's should be doing in their own way (at least for the default DM stage - DE's can take over after that)? This is a genuinely open question, not one that is "loaded" in one way or another! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg