Don't touch keyboard setup

[Jelle de Jong]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Jelle de Jong
> <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> wrote:
>> David Mohr wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> * Olivier Fourdan [2008-10-18 00:06]:
>>>>> Disable support for xklavier in xfce4-settings
>>>> Well, I don't find the option. In the keyboard settings I can select a
>>>> keyboard model and layout, but where can I disable that?
>>> It is a compile time option. You need to rebuild the xfce4-settings package.
>>>
>>> ~David
>> Maybe its an idea to make this option available for the end user,
>> without the need for manually recompiling. I for one would like to have
>> control over my settings without the need to recompile.
>>
>> Are there more people that do not like to recompile packages to disable
>> some functionality?
> 
> When I started xfce4 several years ago, my goal was to avoid
> unnecessary options as much as I could, because it confuses users and
> makes to code uneedlessly complex.
> 
> Over the years we have somehow lost this from sight and added options
> for anything and everything.
> 
> How many users need such an option? If it's less than 1 out of 10,
> then the answer is no.
> 

I you talk about options in the graphical environment, then I fully
agree with you, keep gui as clean and simple as possible.

However please try to design your application that everything done in
the GUI can be done with command line tools to. And that configuration
options can be accessed as file (preferably an human readable one)

So if we talk about something as important as how the keyboard response
then i think it should be configurable without recompilation packages.
So an good configuration file would be preferable.

Just my thoughts, how do other people think about this?

Best regard,

Jelle