Re: New user preferences program/capplet for RandR needed.

[<Jim Gettys hp com>]

I understand.

Keith and I will be happy to help out, but my GTK programming skills are
rudemitary at best...

Note that it is actually pretty simple; you get a list
of possible sizes and rotations, and there is an event saying it is done
(or was changed externally).

And then there is the obvious hack needed to GDM, to say what resolution
a user wants when they log in (but GDM already suffers from feeping
creaturism, I have no doubt this will happen).  Keith realized we have
a race today (from when your connection is established, to when you
select for an event), but we discussed a fix for this.  This would clearly
happen alot on log in.
                         - Jim


> From: Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:28:51 -0400
> To: Jim Gettys hp com
> Subject: Re: New user preferences program/capplet for RandR needed.
> -----
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:03:09PM -0700, Jim Gettys hp com wrote:
> > Keith Packard and I just checked RandR into the main XFree86 tree for
> > the XFree86 server (as opposed to the prototype we had in TinyX).
> >
> > This allows resize, rotate, and potentially reflection of the screen
> > under program control.  (if you wonder about reflection, think about
> > turning a reflective display into a poor man's HUD on your car....)
> >
> > So guess what?  This means Gnome needs some more UI to control this.
> >
> > Keith/Owen are hacking on the GTK support right now.
>
> It looks like I've been left to manage control-center.  I'll have a
> look at adding a capplet for this.  However, don't expect anything
> soon.