Cherrypicking system-config-xfree86 from redhat

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 18:57:09 GMT 2006


> On Thursday 19 January 2006 19:25, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I think we find someone who can package it.
> But I'm more interested in early testing of this software.
>
> Corey, did you test it on current dapper or breezy?
>
> Would be cool to have such a tool, and if it's suitable for Ubuntu, we will
> have it in no time :)

I have played a little with it, but not on current dapper. I will test
it this weekend.

Corey



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