Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support
Julien Cristau wrote:
> > hal breaks existing working configurations without warnings. The simple
> > test case is using a non-US keyboard properly configured as such in
> > xorg.conf. Introduce evdev/hal and watch users get frustrated. The
> > problem of course: keyboard layout cannot be auto-configured. But why
> > ignore existing configuration?
> >
> we don't ignore existing keymap configuration, and you get the same
> layout after the upgrade as was configured in xorg.conf.
I
a) got an english keyboard instead of a german one
b) sudently lost my ~, | etc. with the upgrade.
I would not call that preserving the configuration, honestly.
Grüße/Regards,
René
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