brainstorming for UDS-N - Graphics

[Bryce Harrington]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 11:49:49AM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 14:20 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:43:27PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 10:57 +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> > > In an idea world, whenever I first plug a device I'd get prompted to
> > > either:
> > > 1) Ignore it
> > > 2) Configure it (through gnome-display-properties)
> > 
> > Can you describe a situation where a user would plug something in but
> > prefer for it to be ignored?
> > 
> > I'm guessing 99% of the time the user plugged in the device because they
> > want to (configure and) use it.
> > 
> > Bryce
> 
> Happens to me quite often when putting my laptop on my docking station
> at the office. I always have a 22" screen plugged on that one but don't
> want to use it most of the time.
> 
> That's probably that 1% though ;)

IIRC, gnome-settings-daemon is *supposed* to memorize different hardware
patterns and the last configuration you set for them, and then
automatically go to that configuration if the hardware pattern appears
again.  However it's been years since I perused the code (and it didn't
function properly at the time anyway), so who knows what it actually
does.

Anyway, even with your case, there shouldn't be a need to pop up a
configure prompt each time - it should remember and set things to how
they were before.

Do you have a crt/lcd button on your laptop?  If you press it several
times does it toggle you through the setting(s) you want?

Bryce