Hey, I'm all for improving the situation with around auto configuration of hardware, but with all due respect, I think you guys are trying to solve the symptom, not the real problem. In my view you really want the X server to be able to export an API for software higher up the stack (GNOME, KDE, etc.) to configure the X server. You also want to reconfigure it while it's running. It seems to me, that putting in an mediator, for basically writing out configuration files, is not the best API for doing this. I could be wrong though. Ideally the X server wouldn't even touch hardware before someone used that API to say "Add monitor, Add input device, blah blah". Anyway, with the right API in the X server (which would probably be exported through D-BUS), I should be able to write a daemon, let's call it gnome-input-manager, that runs in the desktop session as user davidz. This would also allow said daemon to disable the touchpad when I connect an external mouse or, for more fun, to disable it around intervals where I'm punching the keys. The reason you want this in the desktop session is that you want to query the locally logged in users preferences from e.g. gconf or whatever. Just what I personally think. Have fun, David
