Freedom to use the good bits of other distros in Ubuntu?

[Chanchao]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 05:09 -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:

> Yes. Its GPL, so we would be able to incorporate it into Ubuntu.
> Probably into Universe though as it would add some complexity that
> 'average users' generally don't need.

I think every average user with a slightly-less-than-average screen
would need it? (Like my cheapo laptop that does however have a 1280x768
screen?)  I'm talking mostly on the screen resolution config function
here, indeed the other ones like keyboard and mouse are less urgent
because Ubuntu does a good job with it automatically / from the
installer.   

But screens & displays is just tough in Ubuntu.. as soon as there is a
glitch the average user is pretty much stuck, and/or left to run the
xserver text mode config tool or edit files manually.   

I also submit that 'what the screen looks like' is the very first
impression anyone gets from Ubuntu.  If it doesn't show at all or show
in low resolutions then we're not making as good an impression as we
could.

Thanks for the links, I will follow up and submit my case. :)

Cheers,
Chanchao





> Links to source and binaries may be found here:
> http://sax.berlios.de/
> 
> Feel free to suggest it on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/Candidates
> 
> Also, see the forums for threads like this:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=269479&highlight=sax2
> 
> ---
> SaX2, as well as the rest of YaST2 is scheduled to be ported to GTK+
> bindings for the release of OpenSuSE 10.2 in December 2006. This would
> be an excellent opportunity to repackage the SaX2 utility into .deb
> format for Ubuntu's purposes.
> 
> More information can be found here:
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/YaST2-GTK
> ---
> 
> CK
>