Re: GNOME Development Series Addition

[Matthew Allum <breakfast 10 am>]

Hi;

I wrote the applet mainly for a quick way to rotate the display. I've
been playing with GNOME on a tablet pc, so this is pretty useful for
me at least. 

I agree the resolution stuff better belongs in a dialog. Is it harmful
for it to be in the applet as well ? Some users may have a need to
change there screen resolution quickly - I dunno. 

If no-ones already done it, it'd be pretty trivial for me to hack
dialog together. Though I havn't thought much on where you'd store the
selected resolution between sessions. 

   -- Matthew


on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 03:45:19AM -0700, Loban A Rahman wrote:
> 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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