Comment 12 for bug 970560

I know that this is not a critical bug, but IMHO we cannot consider it just
as a cosmetic problem. In fact people usually doesn't look at the rectangle
color you mentioned, but they focus on the label they see in "Display"
window, and they get confused.

I'm not a professional developer, i saw in the link to the change you
posted above, that the bug may be caused from a condition added in an "if"
expression:

strstr (output->name, "DFP")

Couldn't we modify the code in order to apply that condition ONLY if the pc
is a mac?? For example:
from: strstr (output->name, "DFP") to something like this: (strstr
(output->name, "DFP") && some_variable_that_make_me_know_it's_a_mac)

I know that it's an ugly solution, but now, in this moment, the application
isn't working properly, with that ugly workaround (that maybe we will
remove once the problem is solved in a better way) the application works.

Maybe i'm just writing a lot of rubbish, but in this case, i'd like to know
the reason.

In this period I made some test and I also noticed that the color of the
rectangles you wrote about are wrong, in fact in the monitor that "Display"
window marks with the red color I can see a rectangle with a green one, and
the same is for the other... It's not so intuitive that in order to modify
the resolution of the monitor with the red rectangle i have to modify the
resolution of the monitor marked with the green color in "Display" window.
Maybe if you need in these days i'll post some screenshots.

I hope we will find a solution in order to make Ubuntu a better Distro.

Il giorno 25 aprile 2012 21:36, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> ha
scritto:

> we could probably be smarter about it but it requires guess work and the
> issue is mostly cosmetic since you can look at the rectangles drawing to
> see which one is which so it's not an high importance issue compared to
> other bugs
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