[PATCH] First round of updates for X11R7.6 release notes

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 20:03:00 PDT 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>> @@ -156,82 +157,52 @@ The next section describes what is new in the latest version
>>>       <itemizedlist>
>>>         <listitem>
>>>          <para>
>>> -           <firstterm>Multi-Pointer X (<acronym>MPX</acronym>)</firstterm>
>>> -           provides the user with multiple independent mouse cursors and
>>> -           multiple independent keyboard foci.  Each cursor is a true system
>>> -           cursor and different pointers can operate in multiple applications
>>> -           simultaneously.
>>> +           <firstterm>Xorg configuration directories</firstterm> are
>>> +           used to allow fragments of the X server configuration to be
>>> +           delivered in individual files.   For instance, the input device
>>> +           driver matching rules previously provided in HAL
>>> +           <filename>.fdi</filename> files are now provided as
>>> +           <filename>.conf</filename> files in a
>>> +           <filename>xorg.conf.d</filename> directory.
>>
>> If you're mentioning the input driver matching, I think it would be
>> worth a "See the INPUTCLASS section in xorg.conf(5)" or something like
>> that. It's actually two features, so you could break this into two
>> paragraphs: xorg.conf.d and InputClass. Might not be worth it, though.
>
> Thanks - this sound better?
>
> @@ -157,11 +157,24 @@ The next section describes what is new in the latest versi
>       <itemizedlist>
>         <listitem>
>          <para>
> +           <firstterm>InputClass</firstterm> sections in Xorg configuration
> +           files are used to apply configuration options to any input
> +           device matching specified rules, such as device path,
> +           type of device, device manufacturer, or other data provided
> +           by the input hotplug backend.  Details can be found in the
> +           <literal>INPUTCLASS</literal> section of the
> +           <ulink url="xorg.conf.5.html">xorg.conf(5)</ulink> manual page.
> +         </para>
> +        </listitem>
> +
> +        <listitem>
> +         <para>
>            <firstterm>Xorg configuration directories</firstterm> are
>            used to allow fragments of the X server configuration to be
>            delivered in individual files.   For instance, the input device
>            driver matching rules previously provided in HAL
>            <filename>.fdi</filename> files are now provided as
> +           <literal>InputClass</literal> sections in
>            <filename>.conf</filename> files in a
>            <filename>xorg.conf.d</filename> directory.
>          </para>

Great. I didn't read everything in detail, but:

Reviewed-by: Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com>


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list