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[openbeos] Re: About Screen pref

From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:51:25 +0200

Hi Fredrik,

> Thinking of adding tabs, like
> One tab for dual monitors
> One tab for TV out
> One tab for information about your card. (Don?t know about this one 
> though)
> 
> If someone has access to Linux and/or OSX can you drop me pictures of 
> their screen pref?
> 
> This is how I think I will do it.
> 1. Remove non generic code. Like specific code for Radeon
> 2. Make the pref app behave as I like it to behave.
> 3. Send the app to this mail for you to test. (By now we perhaps have a
> plan for how Haiku will handle TV out and dual screens)
> 4. try to implement the Radeon and Nvidia handling so it's easy to add new
> cards or change the pref app when Haiku handles dual monitors/TV-out 
> better (by then I would know what would be nice future to have)

Haiku or BeOS do not properly support dual monitors. Therefor, the 
additional options in the Screen pref are quite limited anyways. My 
personal feeling is that the preflet doesn't need to change much because of 
these reasons. What is there just needs to work with both ATI and NVidia 
drivers.

Of course you are free to work in any direction you want, you can send the 
results here. I guess I don't need to tell you that we Haiku nuts like it 
simple and elegant, so if you manage to satisfy this taste (!), you are 
likely to get your changes accepted. :-)

May I add, that a really useful addition would be to change both app_server 
and the screen preflet to become aware of the default (preferred) 
resolution of your monitor? So the Screen preflet would somehow indicate 
the preferred resolution in the popup, while app_server would treat the 
default resolution special when it saves/loads the settings. So that when 
you plugin another monitor, and app_server reads its settings, it becomes 
aware that the last setting was the default resolution at the time, but the 
default has changed, and so it should ignore the old settings and switch to 
the new default resolution. Now _that_ would be cool, and I have seen this 
on no other OS I use.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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