On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:55:35PM -0400, ext David Nusinow wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:53:40PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote: > > As I've said before, the X server isn't the only user of the field. :) > > Ubuntu were trying to move to cxkb a year or so ago, and the only thing > > that stopped them in the end was how huge the XKB codebase was, which > > I'm fixing (very slowly) upstream. So yeah, if having this in HAL lets > > us finaly unify console and X keymaps ... > > Ok, I missed that somehow. So it should probably be hal that generates this > and not the xserver?
Yep. > > Well, you could even have a postinst that scans xorg.conf and generates > > the FDI, but yes, the X server should be responsible for checking this > > and not breaking existing setups. > > Yeah, I'm mainly concerned with not breaking existing setups. I feel like > we've been doing that a lot lately. Luckly, lenny is a ways away so we have > time to break things quite a bit before we get it right. Sweet. Well, I'll happily take patches. Cheers, Daniel
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