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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: Disable by default KRandR in 4.11
From:       Sebastian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2013-07-04 11:56:20
Message-ID: 13078967.guTY4HfWUl () miro ! vizzzion ! net
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On Thursday, July 04, 2013 01:06:27 =C0lex Fiestas wrote:
> I want to propose to disable by default KRandR from kde-workspace release
> for 4.11.
> =

> While I'm considered the maintainer of KRandR truth is I have never been =
it,
> I just made it "work" around 4.7 times but it is still full of bugs and
> annoyances.  Since we have KScreen (which tomorrow I will propose for
> Extragear)

I think this should go into SC, not just extragear. Very much so since it =

would replace krandr there.

The functionality of plugging in an extra screen or unplugging it is very m=
uch =

needed for most systems, that's not extragear.

> which almost all distributions are shipping I see no point on
> keeping KRandR around, specially in 4.11 that will be the last release of
> 4.11.
> =

> KScreen is rock solid, it has two maintainers taking care of it, it is way
> more advanced and complete than KRandR and it is trusted enough so
> distributions like RHEL are going to ship it.
> =

> Ideally I would like to remove the source code completely, but I guess we
> are too late into 4.11 to do such thing.

+1 for replacing krandr with kscreen.

Cheers,
-- =

sebas

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