[RFC] Inclusing of xkbset in xorg/app

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue May 24 20:23:41 PDT 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:58:33AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 09:29:17AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:55:11AM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:28:23AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > > One other option is to add the source files into the existing
> > > > xorg/app/xkbutils repository.
> > > 
> > > Or merge it into xinput? Failing that, xkbutils seems sensible.  But I
> > > think merging it into xinput makes more sense.
> > 
> > I think the code would need quite some cleaning up before I'd want to merge
> > it into xinput.
> > any specific reason why you think xinput is better aside from the
> > "infrastructure" to select devices easily?
> 
> Just consistency I guess, and that we probably don't need yet another
> utility to do this.  Especially given that, at a quick glance, xinput
> already has set-ptr-feedback, set-integer-feedback,
> {get,set}-button-map, set-mode, and all the property stuff ...

on the downside, xkbset has a different syntax and mixing that with xinput
is going to cause issues as well. not that I'm too worried about existing
xkbset users (not sure how many there really are out there) but getting that
into a coherent default with xinput would cost quite a bit of time.

Cheers,
  Peter


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