Re: GNOME Development Series Addition

[Loban A Rahman <loban ugcs caltech edu>]

Having to add an applet to change the display resolution seems
counter-intuitive. I think that the resolution changer should be a
standalone utility (consisting of a single dialog) that is launchable
from the menu or by right-clicking the desktop.

Cheers,
Loban

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 23:00, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> Seeing the comments on gnomedesktop I remembered that we should get a
> randr applet into GNOME 2.4. Matthew Allum announced this to the list
> not long ago, so I am proposing that this applet is added to
> gnome-applets unless Matthew or the release team disagree.
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 15:15, Matthew Allum wrote:
> > Application
> > ===========
> > 
> > GrandrApplet - 0.2
> > 
> > Description
> > ===========
> > 
> > GrandrApplet is a GNOME panel applet for quickly changing display
> > resolution and orientation. You need at least XFree86 4.3 with the
> > xrandr extension for it to work. 
> > 
> > Notes
> > =====
> > 
> >  - Rotation is only enabled on TinyX aka kdrive X servers. 
> >  - Beware this is an initial release, its not heavily tested. 
> >  - Needs a more interesting icon, i18n'ing. 
> >  - Feedback welcomed.
> > 
> > Download
> > ========
> > 
> > http://handhelds.org/~mallum/downloadables/grandr_applet-0.2.tar.gz
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