Graphical Xorg configuration Application

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 08:08, Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> Josué Alcalde González wrote:
> > I think it is really needed, but it needs some talk and discussion.
> > The best would be to make backends and frontends, and allow 3rd party
> > vendors to extend the application for special options (synaptic, ati,
> > nvidia...)
>
> The 3rd party vendors should be getting together with the folks on
> ubuntu-sounder (or ubuntu-devel if it gets listed as a project for some
> "next-release") to define the features that should be supported so all
> cards have the same interfaces (with unsupported features simply being
> shown disabled). That different cards show different interfaces for the
> same features on Windows is a big fat bug that shouldn't be replicated
> on Ubuntu.
>
> If the 3rd party vendors are worried that Ubuntu devs might not create
> the GUIs that they want on the timescale they want, they should just
> submit a patch.
What is teh commercial incentive for the third-party vendors? Without one they 
won't bother.

Sasha