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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] XFree86 Control
From:       David Findlay <david () davsoft ! com ! au>
Date:       2002-04-13 4:50:19
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:38, CiAsA S'Nuey Boark wrote:
> On Saturday 13 April 2002 12:17 am, David Findlay wrote:
> > I was just thinking that it would be so much cooler if the KDE Control
> > Panel had a tab that allows you to configure X. You should be able to
> > change resolution, refresh rate or colour depth without restarting KDE
> > and X. How hard would this be to do? Thanks,
>
> Really? How about if your not running linux on xfree? (There are other
> xservers you know).  How would you suggest supporting them?

Have a framework that allows it to work with different backends. Initially 
only an Xfree86 backend would exist, but users of other X servers could add 
it.

> You see the problem here is that this should be a distrobution thing.  Only
> they know exactly what xserver their user are gonna use after an install
> (actually they might not even know that..., I think some of the RH releases
> had X 3.x and X 4.x as different options).  Things like this get discussed
> a good bit on these list, but as it stands, KDE does try to be as vendor
> neutral as possible (not always to great effect, but they do try).

If it's a distribution thing, every distro is different. If the user 
interface for these changes is standard across the board it's a damsight 
easier.

> Now, supposing that someone _did_ write a plugin that did this you would
> have to restart X for the settings to take place.  IIRC X is incapable of
> changing display depths on the fly (someone please correct me if the newer
> x extentions allow this).  It can change resolutions however, but not the
> way you were probably thinking.

It would probably require some changes to Xfree86 to do this, but at least 
you could set what the settings will be on the next startup. Thanks,

David
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