Removed Feature Impact Quality of Ubuntu

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> A GUI based solution to the monitor issue like what Ubuntu 7.04 had in
> the Screen Resolution window's Hardware tab is what is required.  The
> point is the Hardware tab should not have been removed and needs to be
> restored.  That is my argument.  Its removal resulted in consequences
> which were not properly explored.  Had a thorough study been done the
> development community would not have removed it due to the chaos for
> many users it would cause.

It wasn't exactly removed. The entire tool was replaced with a
frontend for xrandr because X (as you've noticed) has changed
significantly on the backend.  Nobody has gotten around to adding that
functionality to the GUI for xrandr. Are you volunteering to write a
tool that lets you add modes through a GUI?  If not, this'd be a
feature request on GNOME Control Center.  This list is not a bug
tracker.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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