Re: Display configuration capplet

[Bryce Harrington <bryce canonical com>]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:40:08AM +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi Bryce,
> 
> Le mercredi 13 f?vrier 2008, ? 01:56 -0800, Bryce Harrington a ?crit :
> > I am in the process of rewriting the display configuration tool we use
> > in Ubuntu.  The hard part of this effort has been porting logic out of
> > xrandr into libxrandr; keithp advises me to create a new library rather
> > than add to libxrandr, but I may not get to that soon.  I assume you
> > guys won't be interested in this until that gets done and take upstream.
> > 
> > In any case, here is a screenshot of what I have currently:
> > 
> >  http://bryceharrington.org/files/screenrez_a.png
> > 
> > This is just building from the existing C/Gtk screen resolution tool,
> > and adding xrandr 1.2 calls for setting up additional monitors, etc.  It
> > does not modify xorg.conf, although there are some settings such as
> > increasing the Virtual Size which may require xorg.conf modifications,
> > but I'm leaving that as a separate problem to keep the implementation
> > simpler for now.
> 
> I believe some Fedora people were working on this too... You should
> probably start looking for them so that we don't end up with two
> capplets :-)

In looking at http://www.gnome.org/~ssp/randr/capplet/, it appears the
development done so far has focused on a monitor hotplug feature and the
start of a cairo-based monitor layout canvas.  There is a randrwrap but
it appears to not have the xrandr 1.2 multi-head functionality, and
isn't integrated with the GUI yet.

Thanks for pointing this out though; I could swear I looked at that site
a week or two ago but only noticed prototypes/mockups.  Evidently
they've been busy coding in parallel to me, although we seem to be
aiming for orthogonal objectives.

Bryce