xinput: Do I want xorg.conf? Do I want hal? Do I want udev?

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:55:22AM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> If you don't want a session manager or you prefer a different desktop
> environment - you're on your own.

Let me remind you that GNOME is not an operating system. It is just a
frontend.

It is nice if it provides a nice shiny tool to configure stuff; but it
has no business *storing*, and *applying* such settings, which don't
really have anything to do with GNOME at all. These should be pushed
down to some generic infrastructure, which is not desktop-specific, and
in fact not X-specific at all.

Unfortunately, it appears that such a generic session-aware hotplug
infrastructure is yet to be invented...

-antrik-