Re: Lock'n'load! [Was: Integrating system tools in GNOME]

["Sergey V. Udaltsov" <sergey_udaltsov pochta ru>]

> >   Sergey would have exactly the opposite

Yes I do!:)

> > perspective here.  Users that frequently flip
amongst various
> > layouts want to configure this at the user level.

Exactly! And even semantically - in the real world, the
set of languages a person uses is a highly PERSONAL
thing. So if Johnny speaks Russian, his girlfriend Mary
(or should I say Bobby these days?:) may want to use
Hungarian - on the same machine.

> 1. they are the vast minority
??? Any statistics?

> 2. their changing of keyboard layouts should affect
only them, thus
> rendering that keyboard layout change ONLY valid for
that user.  They
> can want to configure it all day long, but that
should not mean they
> should change systemwide settings.
Sorry, probably I did not get this point. Are you
saying there still will be personal preferences.

Just my 0.02. XF86Config/xorg.conf format is very
cumbersome - and not really standartized. So I would
not want to parse/modify it - it would make GNOME
dependant on XFree family of servers (which I am trying
to fight against).

Cheers,

Sergey