F14/F13 - system-config-display - should it work?

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> I updated system yesterday, installed scd just now:
> 
> [init 3]# system-config-display
> File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 27, in <module>
> 	import xf86config
> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xf86config.py", line 1, in <module>
> 	import xf86config
> ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ixf86configmodule.so: undefined
> symbol: xstrtokenize
> #
> 
> Isn't all the python 2.7 dep pushing done yet? Is there some other problem here?
> 
> Doesn't work in F13 either:
> # system-config-display
> File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 33, in <module>
> 	import system_config_keyboard.keyboard as keyboard
> ImportError: No module named system_config_keyboard.keyboard

It's more or less dead. ajax technically maintains it, but it's right at
the bottom of his priority list and we've been wanting to drop it for
ages. It's useful for almost nothing these days, especially now GNOME
has a mechanism for applying display configuration from control-center's
'display' module systemwide. Actually, it might be worth discussing
dropping it from F14 or F15 entirely. I've just today adjusted
spin-kickstarts not to use it any more. Anyone aware of other cases
where it's used? Aside from the non-RandR 1.2 drivers, which cover a
small minority of users?
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