Re: Pluggable settings daemon

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 12:30 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 19:01 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 13:41 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > > Not all of them, just the ones that use keyboard filters. Otherwise I'll
> > > > leave it up to you to add magic to avoid waking up the whole of
> > > > gnome-settings-daemon every time somebody types a key...
> > > >
> > > 
> > > One (ugly) route to explore would be using a separate display
> > > connection for the xkb stuff.
> > 
> > It's not only the xkb stuff. There's also the custom keybindings, the
> > media keybindings, and the accessibility bits, at least.
> > 
> couldn't we have a single filter for all processes, in a common place,
> and just dispatch the specific filters to the appropriate places?

Trying to reorganise the capture codes of all the different modules
seems like a big amount of work, especially as the needs of the
different modules are quite diverse.

I'm not sure trying to reconcile the crappy X API with our in-process
modules is the best use of our time...