Bug#564211: xserver-xorg-input-synaptics: Lost tapping after upgrading to 1.2.1-1
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:49:54 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I'd really prefer not to do that. Configuring stuff in hal or udev is
> > just a stopgap until X grows a way to handle hotplugged devices in
> > xorg.conf (which will happen with xserver 1.8), so I think we shouldn't
> > recommend/document this as the way to go. Plus we have tools and
> > protocol for runtime configuration anyway.
>
> OK. I agree that documenting this workaround should be avoided if it is
> going to be temporary. It would just add to the confusion. I didn't
> realize that using udev for storing config was just a stopgap. That
> fact should probably go into the README.
>
Yup.
> > (See
> > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-configuration-world-order.html for
> > a description of the way things are going)
>
> Looks good! I've always fealt that this kind of configuration belonged
> to the X server and had little to do with hal/udev. Adding the
> necessary glue to allow a mix of auto-device discovery and xorg.conf
> snippets sounds just like it was taken from my wishlist :-)
>
Hehe. It's taken a while to get there, and I don't know if we can get
that ready for squeeze, but that's definitely an improvement over
storing X configuration in hal or udev.
Cheers,
Julien
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