xorg.conf.d - InputClass feature request

[Alberto Milone]

On Thursday 07 Jan 2010 18:57:58 you wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Alberto Milone
> 
> <alberto.milone at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 Jan 2010 01:15:37 you wrote:
> >> The benefit of the tag system is that it's technically easy to implement
> >>  and it gives us more flexibility than stricter matches like DMI. The
> >> rest is up to the usage of the tags and some may not be as pretty as
> >> others. As long as hardware vendors keep producing hardware, software
> >> vendors will need to keep producing hacks. But we might as well make it
> >> easier to do so.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Peter
> >
> > Ok, I think we've gathered a few ideas now and we can start experimenting
> > a bit and see how it goes.
> >
> > We can add the support for an additional string to the udev and hal
> > backends (which shouldn't be a lot of work) without caring why/how the
> > tags end up in this string. It can be because of DMI or anything else, as
> > Martin and Peter suggested.
> >
> > In the case of udev, the udev rule will set the tags in the following
> > way: ENV{ID_INPUT.tags}="DellInspiron BottomEdgeButtons"
> >
> > In the case of hal:
> > <merge key="input.tags" type="string">"DellInspiron
> > BottomEdgeButtons"</merge>
> >
> > Then in X we use MatchTag "BottomEdgeButtons", etc. as discussed before.
> >
> > I hope to be able to work on this soon so as to get some feedback.
> 
> OK, I've come around to the idea of the tags system. If you want to
> work on it, what you'll want to do is add a new tags member to
> InputAttributes and populate it from the config/* backends. Then
> you'll need to add a similar tags member to the InputClass struct in
> hw/xfree86/parser/*. The matching is actually done in
> hw/xfree86/common/xf86Xinput.c.
> 
> One question: in the example above is the DellInspiron tag independent
> of the BottomEdgeButtons tag? Is it just another tag, or is it trying
> to imply something about the BottomEdgeButtons tag?
> 
> --
> Dan
> 

In my opinion they should be independent tags. In the example those tags are 
separate because BottomEdgeButtons is something that all touchpads built in a 
certain way (i.e. with hardare buttons underneath the bottom edge) will need 
while DellInspiron tag contains some very specific settings (e.g. for 
jumpycursor, etc.) that work well only on Dell Inspirons.

Regards,

-- 
Alberto Milone
Sustaining Engineer (system)
Foundations Team
Canonical OEM Services