Cherrypicking system-config-xfree86 from redhat

[Simon Edwards]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 22:11, Corey Burger wrote:
> One of the biggest holes in our configuration tools in a decent X
> configuration tool. The RH/Fedora one is far from perfect, but it
> might form a good basis. Obviously we are talking about Dapper+1 for
> anything, I am just raising the idea.

FWIIW. I'm working on an X configuration utility which will hopefully be in 
good shape for Kubuntu's Dapper release. (Kubuntu is already using the other 
configuration utilities that we've been working on.)

The project is called Guidance: http://www.simonzone.com/software/guidance/

Single head configuration, gamma, live resolution (RandR) changes, hardware 
detection, monitor and driver selection is already in there and working. 
(although needed much more testing). I'm now moving on to dual head / 
multi-head configurations.

It is written in Python + KDE. The really painful non-GUI related stuff is 
separate from the GUI code and thus should be able to support having another 
GUI frontend written on top of it.

cheers,

-- 
Simon Edwards             | Guarddog Firewall
simon at simonzone.com       | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice."