On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 09:29 -0500, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
One non trivial change for Fedora would be moving the kbd
config away from xorg.conf. Both Gnome and KDE can already
override the server settings through XKB. The various
display managers, I'm afraid, don't do anything by default.
Same with startx.
This will change soon for gdm, I think. The gdm rewrite will make it
possible to have a keyboard layout selector on the login screen, very
similar to what you have inside the session. At least that is one of the
goals.
Also, I'm not sure if this is a good right time to do it, but
we may benefit from switching to evdev for mice and keyboards,
if only to put let that horrible /dev/input/mice and its
emulated PS/2 protocol rest in peace :-)
Switching to evdev is also planned for F9, and will probably be part of
the "big breakage".