[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Onkar Shinde wrote: "The second last changelog entry says 'Disable displayconfig-gtk in menus (replaced by Screen Resolution tool)', which obviously has not happened." Actually yes it has, but not in quite the same section; its in System/Preferences The program is gnome-display-properties, part

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Marc Baas
So to summon it up: It was supposed to be removed from the menu altogether and be replaced by the Screen Resolution Tool. The tool was put in place as a replacement of displayconfig-gtk under System>Preferences However, displayconfig-gtk wasn't removed from the menu it was moved to Applications

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Marc Baas: As I recall, gnome-display-properties (GDP) has been around for a few releases, though I don't recall exactly if it was in System/Administration or System/Preferences, though the important thing is that GDP doesn't require root privileges while displayconfig-gtk (DCG) does. Having the

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Attachment added: "displayconfig-gtk_0.3.10.debdiff" h

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Conrad Knauer
Ah, that explains it; as per the debdiff: + * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. +(LP: #203612) +- displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we + cannot remove it from the default install at this time. So it must remain installed

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread dorkdork777
Wait, so it's being removed? But the Screen Resolution app has no support for selecting type of monitor, or dual displays, or the graphics driver! Or are these things being added to Screen Resolution instead? I ask because, by default, my monitor is recognised as only supporting 640x480, when real

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: Only the icon is being removed; I think the goal is basically to have newbies not playing with tools that can disable their GUI :) But its still installed on your system and you can run it with sudo displayconfig-gtk from Terminal... -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong sectio

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread dorkdork777
But what will the people with dual displays do? Especially the people who have been on Windows for ages, and are now looking to switch to Ubuntu; it would be a very bad first experience to have to run a command right off the bat to get their monitors working the way they should. -- Screens and Gr

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: I suspect that the idea is that monitors will (usually) be properly picked up and that they can be configured via gnome-display- properties (System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution). In the current Hardy version there appears space to show multiple monitors... -- Screens and Grap

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
After some time considering this bug further, including helping my father-in-law try running the Hardy beta Live CD on his notebook (native resolution is 1024x768 but he only got 800x600 by default) I have a couple new suggestions: First, if there is a way to have it in the menus but not visible b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
@dorkdork, these days xserver can auto-detect monitors, drivers, and resolutions correctly almost every time. But there are still corner cases (maybe including yours), but they're getting so increasingly rare that having a GUI for specifying the monitor is sort of overkill. It's better for us whe

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-25 Thread dorkdork777
OK, that's fair enough. I've done a little experimenting; the screen resolution is detected fine when using the open-source 'nv' driver, but not when using the 'nvidia' driver. Since the 'nvidia' driver is closed- source, there may not be much you guys can do about it, so I'm not sure if filing a b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-31 Thread Onkar Shinde
Why is this bug marked fix commited? Where was the fix commited? Why hasn't it yet entered the repositories? Also the debdiff attached doesn't look very nice. It has some unexpected deletions. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package displayconfig-gtk - 0.3.10 --- displayconfig-gtk (0.3.10) hardy; urgency=low * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. (LP: #203612) - displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we cannot

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-03 Thread electricalen
I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without expert help. As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get friends/family to

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Wells
Howdy, Look, I'm dumb as a rock, new enough to mostly keep my yapper shut and have a coupla strikes against me to start with. Thanks to this thread, I found my missing 'displayconfig-gtk', which was removed from the menu by a recent update. FWIW, right now I'm running one of the K8M

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-11 Thread dorkdork777
I've been following this thread for the past couple weeks, and now I see that it's not just me! Something definitely has to be done about this. There's still two weeks till the final release; this needs to be brought to the attention of the developers. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong s

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
It shouldn't be removed and the menu entry should be put back. Many resolution issues have been solved in Hardy with this tool. Also, devs recommended this tool when people complained that "dpkg-reconfigure" didn't let them change driver and resolution settings in Hardy. Nathan -- Screens an

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
Forgot the above post, just noticed the post about Xrandr and its GUI. Nathan -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-31 Thread Onkar Shinde
Why is this bug marked fix commited? Where was the fix commited? Why hasn't it yet entered the repositories? Also the debdiff attached doesn't look very nice. It has some unexpected deletions. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package displayconfig-gtk - 0.3.10 --- displayconfig-gtk (0.3.10) hardy; urgency=low * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. (LP: #203612) - displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we cannot

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-03 Thread electricalen
I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without expert help. As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get friends/family to

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Conrad Knauer
Ah, that explains it; as per the debdiff: + * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. +(LP: #203612) +- displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we + cannot remove it from the default install at this time. So it must remain installed

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread dorkdork777
Wait, so it's being removed? But the Screen Resolution app has no support for selecting type of monitor, or dual displays, or the graphics driver! Or are these things being added to Screen Resolution instead? I ask because, by default, my monitor is recognised as only supporting 640x480, when real

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: Only the icon is being removed; I think the goal is basically to have newbies not playing with tools that can disable their GUI :) But its still installed on your system and you can run it with sudo displayconfig-gtk from Terminal... -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong sectio

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread dorkdork777
But what will the people with dual displays do? Especially the people who have been on Windows for ages, and are now looking to switch to Ubuntu; it would be a very bad first experience to have to run a command right off the bat to get their monitors working the way they should. -- Screens and Gr

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: I suspect that the idea is that monitors will (usually) be properly picked up and that they can be configured via gnome-display- properties (System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution). In the current Hardy version there appears space to show multiple monitors... -- Screens and Grap

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
After some time considering this bug further, including helping my father-in-law try running the Hardy beta Live CD on his notebook (native resolution is 1024x768 but he only got 800x600 by default) I have a couple new suggestions: First, if there is a way to have it in the menus but not visible b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
@dorkdork, these days xserver can auto-detect monitors, drivers, and resolutions correctly almost every time. But there are still corner cases (maybe including yours), but they're getting so increasingly rare that having a GUI for specifying the monitor is sort of overkill. It's better for us whe

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-25 Thread dorkdork777
OK, that's fair enough. I've done a little experimenting; the screen resolution is detected fine when using the open-source 'nv' driver, but not when using the 'nvidia' driver. Since the 'nvidia' driver is closed- source, there may not be much you guys can do about it, so I'm not sure if filing a b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Onkar Shinde wrote: "The second last changelog entry says 'Disable displayconfig-gtk in menus (replaced by Screen Resolution tool)', which obviously has not happened." Actually yes it has, but not in quite the same section; its in System/Preferences The program is gnome-display-properties, part

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Marc Baas
So to summon it up: It was supposed to be removed from the menu altogether and be replaced by the Screen Resolution Tool. The tool was put in place as a replacement of displayconfig-gtk under System>Preferences However, displayconfig-gtk wasn't removed from the menu it was moved to Applications

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Marc Baas: As I recall, gnome-display-properties (GDP) has been around for a few releases, though I don't recall exactly if it was in System/Administration or System/Preferences, though the important thing is that GDP doesn't require root privileges while displayconfig-gtk (DCG) does. Having the

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Attachment added: "displayconfig-gtk_0.3.10.debdiff" h

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Wells
Howdy, Look, I'm dumb as a rock, new enough to mostly keep my yapper shut and have a coupla strikes against me to start with. Thanks to this thread, I found my missing 'displayconfig-gtk', which was removed from the menu by a recent update. FWIW, right now I'm running one of the K8M

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-11 Thread dorkdork777
I've been following this thread for the past couple weeks, and now I see that it's not just me! Something definitely has to be done about this. There's still two weeks till the final release; this needs to be brought to the attention of the developers. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong s

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
It shouldn't be removed and the menu entry should be put back. Many resolution issues have been solved in Hardy with this tool. Also, devs recommended this tool when people complained that "dpkg-reconfigure" didn't let them change driver and resolution settings in Hardy. Nathan -- Screens an

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
Forgot the above post, just noticed the post about Xrandr and its GUI. Nathan -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package displayconfig-gtk - 0.3.10 --- displayconfig-gtk (0.3.10) hardy; urgency=low * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. (LP: #203612) - displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we cannot

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-03 Thread electricalen
I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without expert help. As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get friends/family to

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Onkar Shinde wrote: "The second last changelog entry says 'Disable displayconfig-gtk in menus (replaced by Screen Resolution tool)', which obviously has not happened." Actually yes it has, but not in quite the same section; its in System/Preferences The program is gnome-display-properties, part

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Marc Baas
So to summon it up: It was supposed to be removed from the menu altogether and be replaced by the Screen Resolution Tool. The tool was put in place as a replacement of displayconfig-gtk under System>Preferences However, displayconfig-gtk wasn't removed from the menu it was moved to Applications

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Marc Baas: As I recall, gnome-display-properties (GDP) has been around for a few releases, though I don't recall exactly if it was in System/Administration or System/Preferences, though the important thing is that GDP doesn't require root privileges while displayconfig-gtk (DCG) does. Having the

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Attachment added: "displayconfig-gtk_0.3.10.debdiff" h

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Conrad Knauer
Ah, that explains it; as per the debdiff: + * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. +(LP: #203612) +- displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we + cannot remove it from the default install at this time. So it must remain installed

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread dorkdork777
Wait, so it's being removed? But the Screen Resolution app has no support for selecting type of monitor, or dual displays, or the graphics driver! Or are these things being added to Screen Resolution instead? I ask because, by default, my monitor is recognised as only supporting 640x480, when real

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: Only the icon is being removed; I think the goal is basically to have newbies not playing with tools that can disable their GUI :) But its still installed on your system and you can run it with sudo displayconfig-gtk from Terminal... -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong sectio

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread dorkdork777
But what will the people with dual displays do? Especially the people who have been on Windows for ages, and are now looking to switch to Ubuntu; it would be a very bad first experience to have to run a command right off the bat to get their monitors working the way they should. -- Screens and Gr

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: I suspect that the idea is that monitors will (usually) be properly picked up and that they can be configured via gnome-display- properties (System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution). In the current Hardy version there appears space to show multiple monitors... -- Screens and Grap

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
After some time considering this bug further, including helping my father-in-law try running the Hardy beta Live CD on his notebook (native resolution is 1024x768 but he only got 800x600 by default) I have a couple new suggestions: First, if there is a way to have it in the menus but not visible b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
@dorkdork, these days xserver can auto-detect monitors, drivers, and resolutions correctly almost every time. But there are still corner cases (maybe including yours), but they're getting so increasingly rare that having a GUI for specifying the monitor is sort of overkill. It's better for us whe

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-25 Thread dorkdork777
OK, that's fair enough. I've done a little experimenting; the screen resolution is detected fine when using the open-source 'nv' driver, but not when using the 'nvidia' driver. Since the 'nvidia' driver is closed- source, there may not be much you guys can do about it, so I'm not sure if filing a b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Wells
Howdy, Look, I'm dumb as a rock, new enough to mostly keep my yapper shut and have a coupla strikes against me to start with. Thanks to this thread, I found my missing 'displayconfig-gtk', which was removed from the menu by a recent update. FWIW, right now I'm running one of the K8M

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-11 Thread dorkdork777
I've been following this thread for the past couple weeks, and now I see that it's not just me! Something definitely has to be done about this. There's still two weeks till the final release; this needs to be brought to the attention of the developers. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong s

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-31 Thread Onkar Shinde
Why is this bug marked fix commited? Where was the fix commited? Why hasn't it yet entered the repositories? Also the debdiff attached doesn't look very nice. It has some unexpected deletions. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
It shouldn't be removed and the menu entry should be put back. Many resolution issues have been solved in Hardy with this tool. Also, devs recommended this tool when people complained that "dpkg-reconfigure" didn't let them change driver and resolution settings in Hardy. Nathan -- Screens an

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
Forgot the above post, just noticed the post about Xrandr and its GUI. Nathan -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package displayconfig-gtk - 0.3.10 --- displayconfig-gtk (0.3.10) hardy; urgency=low * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. (LP: #203612) - displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we cannot

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-03 Thread electricalen
I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without expert help. As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get friends/family to

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Onkar Shinde wrote: "The second last changelog entry says 'Disable displayconfig-gtk in menus (replaced by Screen Resolution tool)', which obviously has not happened." Actually yes it has, but not in quite the same section; its in System/Preferences The program is gnome-display-properties, part

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Marc Baas
So to summon it up: It was supposed to be removed from the menu altogether and be replaced by the Screen Resolution Tool. The tool was put in place as a replacement of displayconfig-gtk under System>Preferences However, displayconfig-gtk wasn't removed from the menu it was moved to Applications

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Marc Baas: As I recall, gnome-display-properties (GDP) has been around for a few releases, though I don't recall exactly if it was in System/Administration or System/Preferences, though the important thing is that GDP doesn't require root privileges while displayconfig-gtk (DCG) does. Having the

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Attachment added: "displayconfig-gtk_0.3.10.debdiff" h

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Conrad Knauer
Ah, that explains it; as per the debdiff: + * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. +(LP: #203612) +- displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we + cannot remove it from the default install at this time. So it must remain installed

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread dorkdork777
Wait, so it's being removed? But the Screen Resolution app has no support for selecting type of monitor, or dual displays, or the graphics driver! Or are these things being added to Screen Resolution instead? I ask because, by default, my monitor is recognised as only supporting 640x480, when real

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: Only the icon is being removed; I think the goal is basically to have newbies not playing with tools that can disable their GUI :) But its still installed on your system and you can run it with sudo displayconfig-gtk from Terminal... -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong sectio

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread dorkdork777
But what will the people with dual displays do? Especially the people who have been on Windows for ages, and are now looking to switch to Ubuntu; it would be a very bad first experience to have to run a command right off the bat to get their monitors working the way they should. -- Screens and Gr

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: I suspect that the idea is that monitors will (usually) be properly picked up and that they can be configured via gnome-display- properties (System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution). In the current Hardy version there appears space to show multiple monitors... -- Screens and Grap

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
After some time considering this bug further, including helping my father-in-law try running the Hardy beta Live CD on his notebook (native resolution is 1024x768 but he only got 800x600 by default) I have a couple new suggestions: First, if there is a way to have it in the menus but not visible b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
@dorkdork, these days xserver can auto-detect monitors, drivers, and resolutions correctly almost every time. But there are still corner cases (maybe including yours), but they're getting so increasingly rare that having a GUI for specifying the monitor is sort of overkill. It's better for us whe

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-25 Thread dorkdork777
OK, that's fair enough. I've done a little experimenting; the screen resolution is detected fine when using the open-source 'nv' driver, but not when using the 'nvidia' driver. Since the 'nvidia' driver is closed- source, there may not be much you guys can do about it, so I'm not sure if filing a b

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Wells
Howdy, Look, I'm dumb as a rock, new enough to mostly keep my yapper shut and have a coupla strikes against me to start with. Thanks to this thread, I found my missing 'displayconfig-gtk', which was removed from the menu by a recent update. FWIW, right now I'm running one of the K8M

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-11 Thread dorkdork777
I've been following this thread for the past couple weeks, and now I see that it's not just me! Something definitely has to be done about this. There's still two weeks till the final release; this needs to be brought to the attention of the developers. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong s

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-31 Thread Onkar Shinde
Why is this bug marked fix commited? Where was the fix commited? Why hasn't it yet entered the repositories? Also the debdiff attached doesn't look very nice. It has some unexpected deletions. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
It shouldn't be removed and the menu entry should be put back. Many resolution issues have been solved in Hardy with this tool. Also, devs recommended this tool when people complained that "dpkg-reconfigure" didn't let them change driver and resolution settings in Hardy. Nathan -- Screens an

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
Forgot the above post, just noticed the post about Xrandr and its GUI. Nathan -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
It shouldn't be removed and the menu entry should be put back. Many resolution issues have been solved in Hardy with this tool. Also, devs recommended this tool when people complained that "dpkg-reconfigure" didn't let them change driver and resolution settings in Hardy. Nathan -- Screens an

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-05-13 Thread reassuringlyoffensive
Forgot the above post, just noticed the post about Xrandr and its GUI. Nathan -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mai

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package displayconfig-gtk - 0.3.10 --- displayconfig-gtk (0.3.10) hardy; urgency=low * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. (LP: #203612) - displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we cannot

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-03 Thread electricalen
I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without expert help. As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get friends/family to

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Wells
Howdy, Look, I'm dumb as a rock, new enough to mostly keep my yapper shut and have a coupla strikes against me to start with. Thanks to this thread, I found my missing 'displayconfig-gtk', which was removed from the menu by a recent update. FWIW, right now I'm running one of the K8M

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-11 Thread dorkdork777
I've been following this thread for the past couple weeks, and now I see that it's not just me! Something definitely has to be done about this. There's still two weeks till the final release; this needs to be brought to the attention of the developers. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong s

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-31 Thread Onkar Shinde
Why is this bug marked fix commited? Where was the fix commited? Why hasn't it yet entered the repositories? Also the debdiff attached doesn't look very nice. It has some unexpected deletions. -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-02 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package displayconfig-gtk - 0.3.10 --- displayconfig-gtk (0.3.10) hardy; urgency=low * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. (LP: #203612) - displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we cannot

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-04-03 Thread electricalen
I understand the thinking here about removing it as it can hurt your system, however, it basically concedes the fact that some users will be stranded with a broken Ubuntu installation that they cannot fix without expert help. As someone who is that expert, I regularly try to get friends/family to

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Onkar Shinde wrote: "The second last changelog entry says 'Disable displayconfig-gtk in menus (replaced by Screen Resolution tool)', which obviously has not happened." Actually yes it has, but not in quite the same section; its in System/Preferences The program is gnome-display-properties, part

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Marc Baas
So to summon it up: It was supposed to be removed from the menu altogether and be replaced by the Screen Resolution Tool. The tool was put in place as a replacement of displayconfig-gtk under System>Preferences However, displayconfig-gtk wasn't removed from the menu it was moved to Applications

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Conrad Knauer
Marc Baas: As I recall, gnome-display-properties (GDP) has been around for a few releases, though I don't recall exactly if it was in System/Administration or System/Preferences, though the important thing is that GDP doesn't require root privileges while displayconfig-gtk (DCG) does. Having the

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Bryce Harrington (bryceharrington) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: displayconfig-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed ** Attachment added: "displayconfig-gtk_0.3.10.debdiff" h

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Conrad Knauer
Ah, that explains it; as per the debdiff: + * Really disable displayconfig-gtk from menus, not just move to Other. +(LP: #203612) +- displayconfig-gtk is still required by bulletproof-x mode, so we + cannot remove it from the default install at this time. So it must remain installed

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-20 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203612 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread dorkdork777
Wait, so it's being removed? But the Screen Resolution app has no support for selecting type of monitor, or dual displays, or the graphics driver! Or are these things being added to Screen Resolution instead? I ask because, by default, my monitor is recognised as only supporting 640x480, when real

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-22 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: Only the icon is being removed; I think the goal is basically to have newbies not playing with tools that can disable their GUI :) But its still installed on your system and you can run it with sudo displayconfig-gtk from Terminal... -- Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong sectio

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread dorkdork777
But what will the people with dual displays do? Especially the people who have been on Windows for ages, and are now looking to switch to Ubuntu; it would be a very bad first experience to have to run a command right off the bat to get their monitors working the way they should. -- Screens and Gr

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-23 Thread Conrad Knauer
dorkdork777: I suspect that the idea is that monitors will (usually) be properly picked up and that they can be configured via gnome-display- properties (System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution). In the current Hardy version there appears space to show multiple monitors... -- Screens and Grap

[Bug 203612] Re: Screens and Graphics menu item in wrong section

2008-03-24 Thread Conrad Knauer
After some time considering this bug further, including helping my father-in-law try running the Hardy beta Live CD on his notebook (native resolution is 1024x768 but he only got 800x600 by default) I have a couple new suggestions: First, if there is a way to have it in the menus but not visible b

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