Comment 6 for bug 281580

Hi,

meba:
> I consider this critical and I believe this should focus on reenabling
> hidd as the new stack seems to be buggy for advanced users. Really - can
> it cause a lot of pain to beginners if they have hidd?

The real problem with hidd is that the "hidd --connect" workaround is
"good enough", so that the real underlying bug is never fixed.

> P.S.: No, please don't suggest fixing the bug in the wizard, this report
> is intentionally provided as a request to REINTRODUCE HIDD.
>
Exactly.

Unfortunately, it seems that it's (again!) too late to fix this properly,
so we seem to be stuck with the damn hidd workaround for another half
year. :-(

On the other hand (and the main reason why I, nevertheless, consider
this bug to be a real problem): there are certainly use cases for having
a scriptable replacement for HIDD, particularly (but not limited to)
"--connect".

If there's no documented way to replace hidd in those cases, that's a
regression which NEEDS to be fixed!

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