Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
Issue:
If a particular monitor - with particular specifications and limitations
- is plugged into a Windows system, attempting to change the monitor
resolution is accompanied by a check-box that says "Hide resolutions
this monitor cannot display". This has the valuable characteristic of
only showing the user VALID choices.
Ubuntu (8.10, as amended) does not do this. It lists every possible
resolution under the sun (or so it seems), including ones that would
render the display unusable - or possibly even damaging to the hardware.
A user migrating from Windows to Ubuntu - trying to set his screen
resolution or such like - is used to seeing a subset of values that
represent VALID values - and when he sees things like "12,000 x 10,500"
:-P he's likely to say "Oooh! Neeto!! I wonder what THAT will be like
- and (like me) go ahead and choose it, which renders his system
unusable.
Suggestion:
Can we implement a way whereby Gnome, X, the screen resolution applet, or
whatever, can read the "plug-and-play" characteristics of the monitor in use,
and adjust the display resolution list accordingly.
Can we implement a way whereby Gnome (et.al.) can auto-detect if the
current screen resolution is not consistent with the currently plugged
in monitor? (i.e. If a user normally uses his computer on a 1200 x
1000 monitor, but unplugs that monitor and defaults back to a monitor
which maxes out at 1024 x 768, that the system will auto-adjust to
accommodate the new display?
What say ye?
Jim
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Gnome's "Screen Resolution" should not list un-usable resolutions
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322092
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