Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:43:44PM +0100, Magnus Vigerlöf wrote: >> On söndag 16 mars 2008, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: >>>> Are there any existing thoughts on how to handle these kinds of devices >>>> in a reliably way? Or is the work I've done on the XInputHotplugger >>>> daemon [2] the only work that has, so far, addressed this? >>> I think a userspace daemon is the way to go. But I think this should be >>> integrated into the desktop such as KDE or Gnome. >>> Their HAL daemon should recognize a new input device, shows options to >>> configure it and adds it to the server via dbus, if the user wants to. >> Yes, it must be integrated into the desktop or this whole daemon is becoming >> quite pointless fast.. :) My idea of integration is to host the hotplugger >> daemon as an application on fd.o and provide a D-Bus interface for different >> desktops to be used for integration. > > Well, the point is, if we can define a stable D-Bus API to use for the > daemon, why can't we define a stable X API? > > Cheers, > Daniel, who's already been down the external daemon path and regretted > it can you elaborate on why? I always thought that having the dbus-api wasn't that bad. I never used respeclaration much, but eikke's python script was good enough for me. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg