LWN's Obviously Incorrect 2004 Predictions

LWN's Obviously Incorrect 2004 Predictions

Posted Jan 9, 2004 0:06 UTC (Fri) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050)
In reply to: LWN's Obviously Incorrect 2004 Predictions by AdHoc
Parent article: LWN's Obviously Incorrect 2004 Predictions

I'm also looking forward to more ease of use with udev, D-BUS, HAL and friends.

> What I think would be great is if X also became more user friendly. It seems like on modern systems,
> most of what needs to be discovered can be figured out automatically. For instance, with /dev/input/mice,
> you don't need to tell X where to look for its pointer. As for what kind of pointer is connected, it should
> be able to pick that up from sysfs. At least when I plug in my USB mouse, the kernel knows what kind
> of mouse it is.

FWIW, the kdrive X servers from http://freedesktop.org/Software/xserver autodetect the mouse type to some extent. They don't use any configuration file, you do need to choose an appropriate server though.

XFree86 4.4 is also supposed to be usable without a configuration file in most cases.

> I emailed LWN about doing an article about where X is going, now that the core team has dissolved, [...]

X != XFree86

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