From owner-mint@fishpool.com Thu Jun 5 23:08:24 2003 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 20:27:39 +0100 From: milarb@volny.cz (Bohdan Milar) Subject: Re: [MiNT] Kernel tests To: mint@fishpool.com (mint) In-Reply-To: <20030601121421.41D6918861@core.preferuje.luzik.pl> Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" X-Mailer: aMail 1.28b/MiNT Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: milarb@volny.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de id h55L9Dd21456 On 01 Jun 2003 14:23:54, Adam Klobukowski wrote: Hello, > > > If you refer to the *.tbl files, the situation is different. These > > > are, as I see it, parts of the kernel, exactly like the modules. > > > Since the modules ain't defined in any config file, but just > > > reside in the sysdir and are loaded automatically, I don't see why > > > the tables couldn't, and where is the better place to keep them. > > > Automatic load is simpler, the cnf parser is shorter, and it is > > > not a big deal for a boot manager to rename, delete or copy a > > > single file, even if someone changes keyboards and unicode > > > mappings several times a day. > > > > Not everybody use a boot manager. And I meant to specify all loaded > > stuff in cnf file (include xdd/xfs/tbl and all other things); > > optionally for sure with fallback to automatic load. Why not think > > about this idea? It have some advantages I think. The opinions of > > other users would be nice here. > > In my opinion this may be quite usefull. Yes, I agree too. Maybe for some time it would be useful to let somewhere an option to switch the old and new behaviour. To the keyboards - I do not know exactly how they work today but I would welcome the possibility to switch several keyboards (maybe all loaded in memory) during the work with a shortcut (alt+ctrl+k :-). Regards, Bohdan Milar http://bohdan.atari.org