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gnome-control-center package

Merge "Display" into "Appearance" applet

Bug #132413 reported by brokencrystal.com
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gnome-control-center
Won't Fix
Wishlist
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I am not sure if this is a bug or wishlist, but I would like to see the screen resolution settings in a tab next to the desktop effects, screen saver, wallpaper, and other settings in one place. This way when you right click on the desktop, you only need to click on the screen resolution tab to adjust the screen resolution. This would simplify things. I know that we are not trying to make Linux like MS Windows, but this is how they do it and it is very convenient.

Tags: usability
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brokencrystal.com (admin-brokencrystal) wrote :

I wanted to add that I was referring to Gnome (Ubuntu) desktop. I don't know how you do things in KDE. (Kubuntu) I was referring to this like you did with the desktop effects tab in Gnome. (Ubuntu)

Thanks

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Roel Huybrechts (rulus) wrote : Re: [Gutsy Tribe 4] Screen Resolution with Display Settings Dialog

I disagree. Desktop effects, wallpaper, theme and screensaver all change the look of your desktop, that's why they are grouped into one window. The screen resolution is a 'hardware' setting that does not change your desktop's look, only the size.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Make sense in the way of having almost all the things related to the "screen" in the appearance, i'll forward it upstream let's see what they say, thanks in advance.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

comment from upstream:

"Apart from the fact the screen resolution is a hardware-related setting, we
also hope to get support for multi-screen setups eventually. That will
complicate the resolution capplet UI quite a bit and make it very inconvenient
to just add to the appearance one."

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Changed in control-center:
status: Unknown → Won't Fix
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
summary: - [Gutsy Tribe 4] Screen Resolution with Display Settings Dialog
+ Merge "Display" into "Appearance" applet
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

The upstream bug has been closed as WONTFIX for over 2 years now. With that in mind, I'm going to close this bug too. This is not the sort of substantial UI change we could maintain as a distro patch with the resources currently available (and we already carry too many g-c-c patches anyway).

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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