El mar, 08-06-2004 a las 05:51, Sergey V. Udaltsov escribió: > > > 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? Run a poll and have 30 people participate, in which you ask them how frequently they change their keyboard layouts. Over here, it's 0/30. Try not to have "selection bias" in your sample. My point wasn't to discuss this. I meant to highlight that (if you'd like to call it, DEFAULT) keyboard layout is definitely a system setting, but that it should be also user-configurable so users don't need the root password to change it. This was all about how best to organize control panels in a shell. > > > 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. Of course. > > 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). Shouldn't the GNOME system tools account for different X server configuration types? > > Cheers, > > Sergey > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Esta parte del mensaje =?ISO-8859-1?Q?est=E1?= firmada digitalmente