Re: Future features (was Re: Discussing issues)

Alan Hourihane writes:
 > >  - right now we have a bunch of keymaps that come with the GNOME
 > >    keyboard switcher applet.
 > > 
 > >    I think the idea of a "Swedish keyboard keymap" should probably 
 > >    come with X instead, so that these little applets are just 
 > >    a GUI widget that sends some request to the server or invoke 
 > >    some library. Then there's only one place you have to fix the
 > >    keymap.
 > >
 > >    I don't know a lot about this, I just see the keymaps coming with
 > >    an applet and think "gee that is really wrong" ;-) maybe 
 > >    XFree86 already contains a better way to do it and the applet 
 > >    is just hosed.
 >  
 > If the keymap is part of GNOME, I can't see the reason for including it
 > in X. Doesn't the xkb keymaps that already exist in X fit your current
 > bill anyway ?

We should really take a look at these keymaps. Adding keymaps on top
of xkb really doesn't make sense. We should have keymaps for most
cases one can think of. Ivan Pascal <[email protected]> would be 
the expert to talk to.

 > 
 > >  - I would like to see a remote desktop feature work "out of the box,"
 > >    Alan I mailed you about this a while back, here is a mail that
 > >    includes the notes I made on that:
 > >    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-December/msg00221.html
 > > 
 > >    I realize xf4vnc exists, but something folded into XFree86 upstream
 > >    would be a plus. libvncserver or functional equivalent would also
 > >    be nice to have, if not as part of X, at least readily available.
 > >    Ideally if the server side is a VNC server it would use the same
 > >    libvncserver as any client side VNC server, so that features can be
 > >    added in one spot.
 >  
 > GPL code won't make it into XFree86 at all. That's why xf4vnc exists. 

But from what you told me in NY, I gathered that you've got everything
modularized pretty well so it should be easy to build this stuff 
separately and just drop it in as another module.

 > There are extra things you can do when your inside the Xserver that I
 > currently haven't put too much thought into if the interface lived on
 > the client side. I have suspicions that performance wouldn't be nearly
 > as good, due to events being generated on every damaged region update.

Do clients always get notified of damaged regions - even when bs is
enabled?

 > 
 > 'make World' and then 'make DESTDIR=/yourpath install' is all you need to do. 
 > 
 > This shouldn't mess up anything and will install everything from the build
 > into '/yourpath'. Create a new XF86Config file to use this new path, and
 > off you go.
 > 

This doesn't suffice to test the entire build. Shared libs are
searched in the default path. You need to set several environment 
variables - and I suspect some things are erronously hardcoded.

Egbert.