Cherrypicking system-config-xfree86 from redhat

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Jan 19 18:25:54 GMT 2006


On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:11:55PM -0800, 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.
> 
> Basically, we need to figure out what the common use cases are and
> what the edge use cases are. We then need to determine exactly what we
> want a tool to do and what sort of error checking it should do.
> 
> Daniel, any idea if this tool produces sane configuration files?
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/redhat-config-xfree86.html
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/graphical-x-configuration

The first step would be to get it packaged and into universe.  Sounds like a
good candidate for the universe candidate list in the wiki.

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 - mdz



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