Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 17, 2003 06:18 AM
``And currently the focus is on making X autodetect everything in all cases instead of developing an easy to use GUI tool.''
And how do you run the GUI if X is not configured? Seems like you still need to do the autodetect to get X running the first time anyway. And, in case you didn't know, Red Hat has a decent GUI interface to configure XFree86.
I suppose you wouldn't need to autodetect if the XFree86 developers just threw together a tool that started the server in 640x480 or 800x600 mode (I think all monitors can handle that) so that you could run a generic GUI for configuration. But then you just know what would happen... people would roll their eyes and bitch and complain that they were forced to run the configurator at something less than 1800x1600 resolution.
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Re:ditch X
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 17, 2003 06:18 AMAnd how do you run the GUI if X is not configured? Seems like you still need to do the autodetect to get X running the first time anyway. And, in case you didn't know, Red Hat has a decent GUI interface to configure XFree86.
I suppose you wouldn't need to autodetect if the XFree86 developers just threw together a tool that started the server in 640x480 or 800x600 mode (I think all monitors can handle that) so that you could run a generic GUI for configuration. But then you just know what would happen... people would roll their eyes and bitch and complain that they were forced to run the configurator at something less than 1800x1600 resolution.
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