NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu

nvidia-settings "Configure Display Device" menu should be drop-down list instead of dialog box

Bug #604525 reported by Bert Van Vreckem on 2010-07-12

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	NVIDIA Drivers Ubuntu	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	nvidia-settings (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

When running nvidia-settings to add a second screen to the X server configuration, you select "X Server Display Configuration" in the treelist on the left, then select the screen to be enabled in the layout pane on the right and click on the "Configure" button below. This then opens a dialog box titled "Configure Display Device" with the options "Disabled" (selected), "Separate X screen (requires X restart)", and "TwinView". You then have to select the desired option (usually TwinView) and click the ok button.

This dialog box could easily be replaced by a drop-down list (like the other settings in that pane), saving a user two mouse clicks and the time needed to move the mouse to the right areas.

This is something that's been bugging me for years and is probably trivial to fix.

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lp://staging/ubuntu/maverick/nvidia-settings

lp://staging/~bert-vanvreckem/+junk/nvidia-settings

lp://staging/ubuntu/natty/nvidia-settings

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-07-12:

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default Ubuntu install, that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

- This is a hardware specific problem , and does not affect all users, therefore closing papercut.
For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.

Don't worry though, this bug has been marked as "Invalid" only in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	New → Invalid

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-07-12:

Could you attach a screenshot of the problem?

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Bert Van Vreckem (bert-vanvreckem) wrote on 2010-07-12:

Screenshot-NVIDIA X Server Settings.png Edit (104.4 KiB, image/png)

I agree that I shouldn't have posted it as a paper cut.

Here's a screenshot of the nvidia-settings window, the pointer is on the button that launches the dialog box.

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Bert Van Vreckem (bert-vanvreckem) wrote on 2010-07-12:

Screenshot-Configure Display Device.png Edit (17.7 KiB, image/png)

... and a screenshot of the dialog box itself.

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Bert Van Vreckem (bert-vanvreckem) wrote on 2010-07-12:

Screenshot-NVIDIA X Server Settings.png Edit (40.3 KiB, image/png)

... another screenshot of the proposed change. I'm trying to write a patch.

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-07-14:

Thanks for the screenshots

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	Incomplete → New
affects:	hundredpapercuts → nvidia-drivers-ubuntu
Changed in nvidia-drivers-ubuntu:
status:	Invalid → New

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Bert Van Vreckem (bert-vanvreckem) wrote on 2010-07-14:

bug604525.patch Edit (23.6 KiB, text/plain)

Here's a proposed patch for this "bug".

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-07-14

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added: patch

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote on 2010-07-16:

Patch works fine here, I'll forward it as soon as I can.

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote on 2010-07-16:

Patch sent to Aaron Plattner by mail.

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added: patch-forwarded-upstream
removed: patch

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Aaron Plattner (aplattner) wrote on 2010-07-16:

#10

Thanks, Philip. I've attached Bert's patch to our internal bug for this, which is #357963.

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Bert Van Vreckem (bert-vanvreckem) wrote on 2010-07-21:

#11

Great! Some testing is probably in order. I'm a programmer, but not in C/Gtk. I think I succeeded to preserve the behaviour of the original UI, but that involved moving some things around, so I may well have made some mistakes...

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) on 2010-11-29

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote on 2010-12-06:

#12

Thanks for the patch! I've applied this to the Ubuntu package now, and will be uploading it shortly.

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2010-12-07:

#13

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-settings - 260.19.21-0ubuntu2

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nvidia-settings (260.19.21-0ubuntu2) natty; urgency=low

* Add debian/patches/06_layout_drop_down.patch: screen layout dialog box
replaced by a drop-down list, thanks to Bert Van Vreckem (LP: #604525).
-- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:47:44 -0800

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2010-12-21:

#14

This patch was implicated in regression bug #692677

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2011-01-04:

#15

I've reverted this patch from nvidia-settings, since it appears to be causing a regression (bug #692677).
It sounds like this is a worthwhile patch though, and I'm reopening the bug so we don't lose track of it.

Changed in nvidia-settings (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Triaged

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Michael Wild (themiwi) wrote on 2011-04-08:

#16

If I may add a wish: Radiobuttons would be even easier to use than a drop-down, and since there are only three choices, they wouldn't take up too much space.