[Kde-hardware-devel] kscreen overrides xorg.con*

[Felix Miata]

On 2013-08-05 12:01 (GMT+0200) Àlex Fiestas composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 2013-07-04 16:43 (GMT+0200) Àlex Fiestas composed:

>> > Felix Miata wrote:
>> >> What bug #? Does a new bug need to be filed for it to happen?

>> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317929

>> > No need to add a new bug.

>> Trying to use Fedora 19's 4.10.5 with kscreen 1.0.1,
>> /etc/kde/share/config/kdedrc contains:

>> 	[Module-kscreen]
>> 	autoload=false

What do you think šumski telling me or expecting this to accomplish in 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde/2013-07/msg00086.html ? Not being a 
programmer http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kded/html/ doesn't 
really tell me what kded is about.

>> and not only is xorg.conf nevertheless overridden, but there seems to be no
>> UI to get access to any display settings:
>> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/kscreen10-kdm4105-f19-01.png

>> .xsession-errors is empty. Xorg.0.log:
>> http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/xorg0log-f19-big41.txt

>> How is one supposed to manually configure a display currently?

> In that screenshot you can see 3 little buttons within the square that
> represents your screen.

"Little" for sure. Sitting tiny at the bottom of a square overwhelmed by gray 
whitespace, sitting in a vast larger sea of white whitespace, it's anything 
but intuitive what might be possible from that screen. It sure could use some 
A11Y/U7Y love, and some descriptive text that doesn't require hovering and 
squinting to see.

On a related note, "... configure monitors and displays"? Do people call LCDs 
monitors? Is there a more than an immaterial semantic difference between a 
monitor and a display? Wouldn't just "display(s)", or "screens", or "display 
screens" be better?

> The "Do not overwrite Xorg configuration when using only 1 screen" will be
> done in 1.1, either that or a blacklist of drivers.

I remember that. I also remember 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317929#c13 (and today is the 5th ;-) ). 
Should I just sit on this a week and find 1.1 in an upcoming round of F19 
updates or the next Factory kscreen build? Do you have an amended ETA on 1.1?
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