It is my discretion, as the Ubuntu developer paying most attention to this package, whether to mark this bug invalid or won't fix; I do not intend to do so, and will reopen it if somebody else does. In general it is rather discourteous to continue to insist that something is not a bug when the author of the package has already acknowledged it as a bug!
For system builders that ship computers and monitors as a single unit (which as far as I can tell is the case for IYCC, from what http://www.iycc.biz/ says), it makes sense to configure it properly in the factory. However, other system builders have no idea what monitor their system will be connected to and thus there is a reasonable possibility of failure (since the monitor resolution is taken into account when the X server configures itself), even if the computer itself is correctly configured. You may not have run into this yourself, but it does happen, and the system builder can't always reasonably do anything about it; it's an Ubuntu problem and bullet-proof X is our last line of defence against it before dumping the user at a text console. In Ubuntu, we need to take both possibilities into account rather than only considering IYCC's case. I would be happy for this to be an option that IYCC could turn off (or that Mario could turn on, whichever); there is no need to be concerned that your customers will need to be affected by this, and no need to harangue other experienced system builders who genuinely have different requirements from you. Let me be clear that I do view it as generally undesirable for a user to actually end up needing bullet-proof-X, but only because I think that it means that Ubuntu's X autoconfiguration itself should be improved. I do not think that it means that the system builder necessarily did something wrong. I have a small amount of sympathy for the "user must suffer as much as possible for our bugs, otherwise they won't bother reporting them to us" viewpoint, but there are more graceful ways to get good bug reports that don't involve impeding users' ability to get on with their lives. -- [Feature Request] OEM config should have bulletproof X support https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315647 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
