Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 12:43:19 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: William B <william@firstyear.id.au> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome2 -> Gnome3 - no way Message-ID: <20150108124319.15349b9c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20150108200631.293f7d40@franky.ipa.blackhats.net.au> References: <CAPeCvyLiYDETAoQ3C4Cmbn9UcuxOxy3n9y3Jy%2B6rSBCfCL-S_Q@mail.gmail.com> <63179.128.135.70.2.1420560731.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20150107153505.GB26903@aurora.oekb.co.at> <20150107164934.e0f45beb.freebsd@edvax.de> <242E4555-34DC-4189-BEF9-1A79823B534A@firstyear.id.au> <20150108101849.4143eb55.freebsd@edvax.de> <20150108200631.293f7d40@franky.ipa.blackhats.net.au>
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 20:06:31 +1030, William B wrote: > Both approaches do not work as mate keyboard takes over and changes the layout > regardless of what you set in xorg.conf, but Mate keyboard "forgets" to set > the layout to what the user has configured. I need some time to debug it > though work allowing. Yes, that's actually really a massive usability problem when a desktop environment "captures" a system setting and doesn't implement the substitute properly... > Not that I am aware of: HAL is a depedancy of Xorg, not MATE. It's not just X. Many desktop environments and their components did require HAL as a dependency. Of course it was possible to build X without HAL support and then compile all other programs without HAL support. But having this situation as the default for binary packages really is an improvement. I just feared that Mate would include something that still requires HAL... > According to the > docs, and what I have checked, the "current" version of Xorg in pkg is not built > with hal support, so it's not needed. Great! Finally someone took the garbage out. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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