redhat-config-xfree86 enhancement?

[John McBride]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 18:39, John McBride wrote:
> 
>>William Hooper wrote:
>>
>>>John McBride  said:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>It's just one of those annoying things that Microsoft handles better, I
>>>>guess. At least MS gives you something, a low res gui and a means to get
>>>>to the configurator, without having to resort to the command line.
>>>
>>>
>>>Nope, sorry.  I know from experience that Microsoft will do the same
>>>thing, generally under the same situation.  Try setting an LCD panel
>>>(connected to a KVM that doesn't pass the info) to a resolution higher
>>>than it supports.
>>>
>>
>>The same guy who built this fedora box builds about 10 windows boxes the 
>>same way every week.
>>
>>He builds up the system using a display on his desk, then unplugs the 
>>box and carries it to the destination cube and plugs in a flat panel 
>>display. Same model displays on each end, different OS.
>>
>>He gets a gui from MS windows, and can reconfigure to the new display.
> 
> redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig

Yes, the previous replies already mention this. Redundant.

> 
> OK - so momentarily, you don't get pretty screen to look at when you
> reconfigure X-Windows for different screen and you have to type one
> sentence instead of clicking your way through things. 
> 

Personally I don't care. It looks unprofessional to the users, whom we 
are trying to transition into Linux. It looks like a system failure 
(rather than a misconfiguration) to them, and that's a BAD thing where I 
work.


> The best thing about open source is that you can add value to the system
> by writing the program which solves the problem instead of just sitting
> back and whining.
> 

Whining...like the sounds you're making right now? All I did was mention 
the possibility of an enhancement to Fedora, on the Fedora mailing list.

That's what this list is for; there was no notice that I had to 
contribute patches here when I signed up, only that I try and stay on 
topic. Somehow, in your mind, you are a valid participant and I am not.

You, a person who makes a redundant comment, then resorts to 
name-calling while closing things out, yeah that makes a lot of sense!