RFC: Listening for devices being added - udev vs. X11

[Landry Breuil]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Maximilien Noal
<noal.maximilien at gmail.com>wrote:

> Le 15/04/2014 05:38, Martin Kelly a écrit :
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on a patch to fix a longstanding frustration I've had with
>> XFCE, which is that every time I unplug an external keyboard and then plug
>> it in again, my keyboard repeat settings get lost. It is 100% reproducible
>> and has a fairly simple explanation, which is that xfsettingsd does not
>> listen for the device being added, so X11 sets the keyboard repeat rate
>> instead. Thus my patch is for xfsettingsd to listen for keyboards being
>> added and apply the keyboard settings when the event fires.
>>
>> The question is: Should XFCE listen via udev or via xorg? Using udev is
>> definitely cleaner and more future-proof, but xfsettingsd is already using
>> many X11 libraries, so udev adds a new dependency. Especially since I am
>> new to XFCE development, I wanted to get community feedback so I don't go
>> down a path that will eventually be rejected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Martin
>>
> Hello,
>
> I'm not a Xfce dev, but since Xorg is being replaced by Wayland, which
> Xfce will have to deal with sooner or later, and since udev isn't going
> away : not adding another Xorg dependency makes more sens to me.
>
> But that's a linux-centered viewpoint. For instance, what would be OK for
> Xfce users on *BSD ?
>

udev is definitely _NOT_ ok for users on *BSD :)

Landry
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