I know that this is not a critical bug, but IMHO we cannot consider it just as a cosmetic problem. In fact people usually doesn't look at the rectangle color you mentioned, but they focus on the label they see in "Display" window, and they get confused.
I'm not a professional developer, i saw in the link to the change you posted above, that the bug may be caused from a condition added in an "if" expression: strstr (output->name, "DFP") Couldn't we modify the code in order to apply that condition ONLY if the pc is a mac?? For example: from: strstr (output->name, "DFP") to something like this: (strstr (output->name, "DFP") && some_variable_that_make_me_know_it's_a_mac) I know that it's an ugly solution, but now, in this moment, the application isn't working properly, with that ugly workaround (that maybe we will remove once the problem is solved in a better way) the application works. Maybe i'm just writing a lot of rubbish, but in this case, i'd like to know the reason. In this period I made some test and I also noticed that the color of the rectangles you wrote about are wrong, in fact in the monitor that "Display" window marks with the red color I can see a rectangle with a green one, and the same is for the other... It's not so intuitive that in order to modify the resolution of the monitor with the red rectangle i have to modify the resolution of the monitor marked with the green color in "Display" window. Maybe if you need in these days i'll post some screenshots. I hope we will find a solution in order to make Ubuntu a better Distro. Il giorno 25 aprile 2012 21:36, Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> ha scritto: > we could probably be smarter about it but it requires guess work and the > issue is mostly cosmetic since you can look at the rectangles drawing to > see which one is which so it's not an high importance issue compared to > other bugs > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970560 > > Title: > "Displays" is registering dual monitors as "laptop" when using fglrx > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/+bug/970560/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-desktop3 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/970560 Title: "Displays" is registering dual monitors as "laptop" when using fglrx Status in “gnome-desktop3” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Today after installing the fglrx drivers on my Radeon 6950 cayman card, in the "Displays" options, in order to get dual monitors to work I had to first go into amdcccle and enable it there, restart the computer, and THEN enable it in the displays setting. Also, both monitors are showing up as "laptop". When using the radeon drivers each monitor is picked up as "Acer blah blah", but with the propriatary drivers they both say "laptop" and there is no visual color difference to indicate differences between the two. It would be nice if we could Unify the "displays" menu to where it will enable dual monitors in amdccle when that option is selected or visa versa. It would also be nice to see the two monitors registering as their proper names and differentiation. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Mar 31 21:05:09 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-desktop3/+bug/970560/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
