screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron
Hal Martin
hal.martin at gmail.com
Fri Sep 26 00:08:36 UTC 2008
Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
>
>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Rashkae wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> This will be the last time I reply, and second to last time I read a
>>>> rude rant from you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Rants, yes. Rude, no.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I'll admit, I've been known to use a tad more profanity when I'm in a
>> combative mood, but I still consider the following fine examples of
>> rudeness to people who are only trying to help.
>>
>>
>> quote:
>>
>> AGAIN, skirting and ignoring the issue! This why I'm getting pissed,
>>
>> Jesus Christ, a 5 year old understand this problem better than you guys do!
>>
>>
>>
> I'll try this again ...
>
> The point I am making is that nobody ever should have to goto the
> terminal to run a dialog from an older version of Ubuntu just to change
> their monitor settings. It should be in the display resolution dialog
> on the System Menu, not buried somewhere where an average novice
> computer user can't find it.
>
> I'm sorry for sounding rude but it was really irking me that weren't
> getting what I'm trying to say here.
>
> If we want everyday ordinary people who aren't computer geeks and IT
> professionals to discover the freedom and power of Linux every
> concession must be made in order to make their experience as user
> friendly as possible. Ubuntu is getting there but this display
> resolution problem is a pretty major hurtle.
>
> Most newbies to Linux don't know to look in forums or mailing lists to
> seek help and the documentation says nothing about running
> "displayconfig-gtk" from the terminal, so how could they know that this
> would fix the problem? In fact most of them won't bother to look,
> they'll give up long before it comes to that. Having a solution there
> is one thing, but it doesn't help if they don't actually know it is
> there in the first place.
>
I'll give that utility a try, the integrated one isn't worth the space
it takes up.
> The option to change your monitor settings should have been in Hardy's
> display resolution dialog from the beginning instead of being left out.
> If that hadn't happened I wouldn't be ranting about it right now and
> trying to explain to everyone that this is hurting Ubuntu by turning off
> new users who get frustrated and give up trying to fix this problem.
>
> So, I'm sorry if I sounded rude, I'm sorry for giving a damn whether or
> not people seriously consider using Linux instead of Windows, I'm sorry
> for trying to explain to you all that we need to tell the development
> community things need to be fixed in order to make Ubuntu more user
> friendly for the OS's target audience .... the average computer newbie.
> I'm sorry for caring.
>
> This ends my rant. I urge you all to let the development community know
> that there is a problem that needs to be addressed here. For the next
> release of Ubuntu make it possible to change your monitor settings in
> the display resolution dialog. It couldn't be simpler than that.
>
Finally, someone else who noticed this problem. You'd think that they
would have improved the new utility by 8.04, or even 8.10, but nope.
I get to enjoy the fun of 800x600 on my Intel integrated graphics on
8.10 because I haven't found a fix yet that works...
-Hal
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