Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

[Sam Varshavchik]

Olav Vitters writes:

> Venting makes it difficult to understand the issue. State your problem
> calmly, otherwise most @ GNOME will quickly ignore either you, or the
> whole mailing list.

Too late.

The aforementioned "most @ GNOME" have already been ignoring feedback for a  
long time. There are unfixed bugs in Gnome that have existed for years. And  
I'm not talking about some isolated edge cases; but basic, fundamental  
breakage. For example: getting the monitor DPI's wrong.

Now, it's understandable that if – given the large universe of hardware –  
sometimes you can't get things right, automatically. That's perfectly  
understandable. No cause to complain about that. But the responsible, and  
adult thing to do in this situation is to provide an easy, simple way to  
override the setting, manually. All that needs to happen is a simple gdm  
parameter that it passes through to x.org, and I will be shocked if anyone  
manages to come up with a logical, understandable reason why this would be a  
bad idea.

Unfortunately, the royal highnesses that even bothered to reply to that  
years-old bug have waived it off, with vague, occasional promises of doing  
something, in some virtually-correct way, at some unspecified future point  
in time, when everything will get a grandiose rewriting. In the meantime,  
it's more important to make sure that all the rounded corners are pixel- 
perfect – then to fix basic functionality like this.

Were this an isolated case, it would be just that; but it's not.

Life's too short. kdm has an option to pass through a manual DPI setting to  
x.org, and I have more important things to do, then waste any more time on  
that nonsense.

Because of that, when last week, on another laptop, gnome-shell suddenly  
decided to consistently take up 40% of its CPU, doing absolutely nothing but  
displaying one gnome-terminal window, with "top" running inside it, giving  
me the sad news every 3 seconds, I weighed my options, and decided that this  
one will have to be written off also, as a hopeless case.

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