tir, 30.11.2004 kl. 18.43 skrev David Zeuthen: > 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. Hmm... Would it be possible to restart *X11* without killing the current session? So that the user would only se a "blink" and then whatever was working?
