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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: [rant] keeping policy in HAL
From:       Matthew Garrett <mjg59 () srcf ! ucam ! org>
Date:       2008-11-30 18:08:49
Message-ID: 20081130180848.GA31973 () srcf ! ucam ! org
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 09:17:47PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

> However, xorg gets things like keyboard layouts from HAL. This is also 
> policy, and also important to get i18n right. But, for some reason, this 
> is allowed to exist in HAL, and default mount options aren't. Could you, 
> xorg/HAL developers, at least be consistent, and either undeprecate 
> volume.policy.mount_option.*, or invent a different place (i.e., 
> something else than fdi files) to keep the default keyboard layout and 
> deprecate the corresponding HAL keys?

Input device configuration shouldn't be in HAL. I think everyone's 
agreed on the current situation being due to nobody having implemented a 
correct solution yet.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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