>From my short experience, the application worked great, but tended to break X after reboot... Will the new X 1.3 be more helpful with dual head???
Does displayconfig-gtk also support SVideo output??? On 5/29/07, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Desktopers, > > the new and shiny GTK frontend to displayconfig (the x configuration > part of the KDE admin suite named guidance) has got some usability > issues. I would like to start a discussion about this to get your input > and comments. > > Currently the dialog is separated into three tabs: > > - Display mode (allows to change the resolution, rate of each screen) > - Dual head (allows to configure a dual screen setup) > - Devices (allows to choose drivers and monitor models) > > You can get a recent feisty package of displayconfig-gtk here: > > http://glatzor.de/filesink/displayconfig-gtk_0.2 > +20070523ubuntu2_i386.deb > > Furthermore some older screenshots can be found on the Internet: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DisplayConfigGTK > > The problem is that this layout behaves quite bad in the current use > case: Setting up a new monitor for dual screen use. > > At first you have to go to the devices chooser and select another model, > then back to the dual head tab and choose the right mode. Most times you > will forget to go back to the first tab and change the resolution before > clicking ok ang logging off and in. > > Furthermore it is quite hard to identify monitors on the first tab if > you have got more than one graphics card. > > So the a solution could be to merge the display mode and devices tab to > single tabs of which each would represent a single graphics card: > > http://glatzor.de/filesink/dcg-gfxbase.png > > **** > If you want to the new/other user interface on your computer > (displayconfig-gtk needs to be installed before): > bzr branch http://glatzor.de/bzr/displayconfig-gtk/gfxbase/ > cd gfxbase > ./displayconfig-gtk --data-dir=data > **** > > There is the objection that identifying screens by graphics cards is > quite geeky, since most users only know of the screens that they see and > not internal cards. > > Hopefully most systems would only have got one device. And the people > that bought a second card for dual screen are used to the technical > terms. > > If there would be only one device and one output the user would only get > one device tab and the screen selector on the left would not show up. So > the new interface could scale well. > > http://glatzor.de/filesink/gfxbase-single.png > > I am unsure if we should remove the dual head configuration tab at all > or only make it insensitive in single screen mode. On the one hand users > that connect a second screen later on another computer would know where > to search for, but on the other hand users that perhaps for all time > will only sit in front of one monitor will be bothered with more > technical and complex issues. If the second tab is invisible we could > even hide the borders of the notebook or perhaps exchanged them by a > separator: > > http://glatzor.de/filesink/gfxbase-stripped-down.png > > Although I designed the dialog I am still a little bit confused by the > multiple screens layout and I heard this from others too. > > This could be related to the screen selector. But improving it can be > quite hard, since we are limited in space that can be used by the main > window and therefor the screen selector: the dialog has to fit on a > 640x480 screen. > > Currently the model name of the screen is available twice: one time in > the selector and one time on the device/model chooser. Currently the > device chooser label uses ellipsis and therefor does not consume too > much space. It would be nice if would not to duplicate this text. > > Would using numbers for the outputs make more sense? Moving the selector > to the top seems to get us into space troubles. > > By the way the driver name on the lowest selector will be replaced by a > human readable and longer name in the future. > > In the near future I plan to add location/profiles support to the > window. That would allow you to manage different X configurations and > easily switch between e.g. your home and work setup. > > See this and the previous screenshot: > > http://glatzor.de/filesink/gfxbase-profiles.png > > I would be appreciate your input, comments and suggestions. > > Regards, > > Sebastian > > P.S.: To avoid any XRandR 1.2 questions: Primarily we will use the > traditional approach by xorg.conf modifications. 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