Re: [PATCHES] Implement monitor labeling in the RANDR code

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Federico Mena Quintero
<federico ximian com> wrote:
> Dear lovers of multiple monitors,
>
> Here are three patches (for gnome-desktop, gnome-settings-daemon, and
> gnome-control-center, respectively).  I added a new unstable API for the
> RANDR stuff, with an object called GnomeRRLabeler.
>
> The idea is that in the gnome-display-properties capplet and in the tray
> icon for RANDR, we want to make it easy for the user to see which
> elements in the GUI correspond to each physical monitor.  GnomeRRLabeler
> creates color-coded labels in each physical monitor (similar to KDE's
> and MacOS's), and it lets apps query those colors so that they can paint
> their own GUI elements.
>
> GnomeRRLabeler lives in gnome-desktop.  In turn, gnome-settings-daemon
> and gnome-control-center use GnomeRRLabeler's API.
>
> Is this OK to commit?  I know freezes are in place, but this is so
> sexy :)
>
> Screenshot at http://www.gnome.org/~federico/misc/monitor-labels.png
>
> Git repositories here:
> http://gitorious.org/projects/gnome-desktop/repos/mainline
> http://gitorious.org/projects/gnome-settings-daemon/repos/mainline
> http://gitorious.org/projects/gnome-control-center/repos/mainline
> (see the "monitor-labeling" branches in each of those repositories)
>
> (No new translatable strings have been added).
>

I like this a lot.