Re: GNOME Development Series Addition

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi all,
Personally I feel that putting it in the control center would be fine,
but I do not see it as an argument against the panel applet. It is kinda
like the GNOME Mixer and the GNOME volume applet, for day to day use the
volume applet is all you need, and only once and again do you feel the
need to open the mixer to adjust stuff.

The xrandr applet would be great for just being able to quickly switch
resolution.

Christian

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:27, Matthew Allum wrote:
> 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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