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

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 17:08 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2010/08/12 16:53 (GMT-0400) Adam Jackson composed:
> 
> > On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 15:13 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> For the benefit of those few, and there will likely always be some, for whom
> >> automatic isn't, some tool is needed upstream in Xorg, possibly SaX2 or SCD
> >> at least as a starting point. A wider call for a maintainer of SaX2 or SCD or
> >> some equivalent is needed. But how and where?
> 
> > X believes this to be the job of the DE.
> 
> This sounds like a myopic belief.

Why? It's working reasonably well. gnome-display-properties is a damn
sight better designed than any distro X config tool I remember working
with (including s-c-d and drakx11).

> >  We're not in the business of
> > making sample applications beyond the server itself.
> 
> I don't think I understand which we on whose behalf you speak.

He was speaking on behalf of X.org at that point.
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