----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:23 PM Subject: Re: Re: Re: Improvement > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Pedro M. wrote: > > Some people or distributions might be interested in following > that approach perhaps. That isn't user friendly however. A user > friendly system would have monitors that just worked, requiring > zero user intervention or configuration. Any monitor metadata > needed for configuration would be supplied by the system (or > manufacturers) and included with the OS (or driver updates), just > as it is done in Windows. > > You (and others) may want to have a dialog for punching in this > information indefinitely perhaps. Personally, I want to see the > problem solved on a higher level, and be automatic, thus having > users not need to know anything about their monitor other than > how to turn it on. > There is two different ways to it : - The people with some computeres that want to use Linux. They cannot use this automatic configuration and they couldn´t know about linux now :( - Follow another standard for a full automated user-friendly installation/configuration. This can be stablish from now, so the next computers can follow this good standard. Unfortunatelly, I think one have to follow the two ways. I love the automated installation idea. So go ahead with it. On the other hand, I was thinking about another problem with the desktop : the keyboard / language. Thinking about automated installation, I would like to see the keyboard talking to the operating system ( symbolically, of course ) and saying : I am a keyboard and my ID is KB_ES_es (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_code ). In this way, I wouldn´t have to type, i.e., the cheatcode knoppix lang=es > "VGASAVE". > > > >Good thing to imitate ;) > > I agree. > I have included more links in http://wiki.debian.net/index.cgi?XFreeCommon and information in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGASAVE > > Take care, > TTYL Good work. All the best. Pedro. _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
