Packaging X Display Configuration tool for Universe

[Andreas Lloyd]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 01:11:33PM +0200, Andreas Lloyd wrote:
>   
>> Eweek wrote:
>>     
>>> However, we were disappointed to see that Ubuntu still lacks a
>>> graphical utility for configuring display settings beyond simply
>>> choosing among available display resolutions.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu did a fine job of auto-configuring our test machines' displays,
>>> but further customizations required hand-editing. For instance, to
>>> configure our Thinkpad to use multiple monitors, we had to manually
>>> edit the xorg.conf file. We'd like to see Ubuntu begin shipping Red
>>> Hat's display configuration tool—not only would Red Hat's tool fit in
>>> well with the rest of Ubuntu's configuration utilities, but it is open
>>> source and available for the taking.
>>>
>>>       
>> Maybe it would be worthwhile to look into this recommendation? I note
>> that a lot of people tend to have problems with their display settings
>> on the Ubuntu-Users mailing-list.
>>
>> I don't know if this should have been a separate spec that should have
>> been discussed in Paris, or if it can still make into Edgy, if it
>> doesn't make a lot of fuss.
>>     
>
> It's something which should have been discussed and specified in advance in
> order to be part of the Edgy roadmap, but there's no reason it couldn't be
> packaged for universe so that we can start to look at it.  I suggest
> finding the source code and proposing it to the MOTU team to see if anyone
> with packaging skills is interested in taking this on.
>   
Hi MOTUs!

Would anybody here be interested in trying their hand at packaging the
Red Hat Display Configuration tool for Universe? You can find more
details about it here :

http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/redhat-config-xfree86.html
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/redhat-config-xfree86/

I'm not quite sure if I located the source code or not, as Matt
suggested, but after spending a bit of time roaming about the Fedora
site, this was the best I could find. The source ought to be there
somewhere, as Fedora is 100 % Open Source (if it isn't available, I
suppose we'll need to request it from them, somehow).

Cheers,

Andreas

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