screen resolution problems with Hardy Herron

[Hal Martin]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> Rashkae wrote:
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>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Rashkae wrote:
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>>>> This will be the last time I reply, and second to last time I read a
>>>> rude rant from you.
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>>>>         
>>> Rants, yes. Rude, no.
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
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>> quote:
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>> 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!
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> 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