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

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 14:32 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2010/08/12 10:46 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> So users of absent or dysfunctional DDC and/or EDID should be committed to
> 800x600 or 1024x768 @96DPI until they replace their (quality, antique, still
> working just fine) displays or learn the cryptic and complicated methodology
> to using xrandr and script editors? Does the Gnome module work for those who
> never Gnome's DTE?

BTW, if you want to maintain s-c-d, I'm sure ajax would be more than
happy to hand over ownership.
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