Bug 105310

Summary:	"Graphics Card and Monitor" module name in YaST no longer valid
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Kirk Coombs <kcoombs>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, kkaempf
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Kirk Coombs 2005-08-17 19:41:01 UTC

Getting to SaX2 in YaST has always been done by navigating to "Hardware>Graphics
Card and Monitor".  While this label was never strictly accurate, it worked fine
because that always seemed the PRIMARY purpose of the module.  Now, however,
SaX2 has been restructured to give prominant place to configuring the Keyboard,
Mouse, VNC, etc.  To the end user, this may be confusing.  For example, the
exact same keyboard and mouse modules are both accessable outside of SaX2.

It may make more sense to get rid of the separate "Hardware>Keyboard Layout" and
"Hardware>Select Mouse Model" modules and just rename the SaX module to
something like "Graphics Card, Monitor, Input Devices, and VNC".

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2005-08-17 20:38:49 UTC

A name like "Graphics Card, Monitor, Input Devices, and VNC" is definitely
too long and confusing.

Maybe it's possible to still have several paths to SaX but make SaX show
the specific configuration right way.  Marcus?

Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-18 07:52:37 UTC

yes sax can be called like this: 
 
  sax2 --dialog <dialogname> 
 
   . Monitor 
   . Mouse 
   . Keyboard 
   . Tablet 
   . Touchscreen 
   . VNC

Comment 3 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-18 07:56:08 UTC

there was a discussion together with Tom about this. Here is the e-mail: 
(in german only) 
 
---snip---- 
 
> Wegen dringender Strukur-Entscheidung in der Doku müsste ich wissen 
> wie weit die "neue" SaX-Integration in YaST gediehen ist. 
> 
> Aktuell gibt's im Controlcenter ein (1) icon, das den SaX aufruft. 
> In Zukunft soll es mehrere icons für Monitor, Tastatur, Maus usw. 
> geben, die nur die jeweilige SaX-Teilfunktionalität aufrufen. 
> AFAIK ist dies aber noch nicht realisiert. 
> 
> Da die Struktur der neu zu schreibenden SaX-Doku stark davon abhängt, 
> ob diese Integration realisiert wird oder nicht, müsste ich baldigst 
> wissen, wie der aktuelle Stand ist. 
> 
> o Ist geplant, das so zu machen? (AFAIK ja) 
> o Arbeitet schon jemand daran? 
> o Kann ich _sicher_ sein, dass es realisiert wird? 
 
Ja ich kann Tom da nur recht geben. Also wie die Aufrufe 
durch das YaST2-control center geregelt werden wird im Moment 
von niemandem berücksichtigt. 
 
Ich kenne diesen Mechanismus nicht, aber vermutlich muss 
es für jedes einzelne Modul ein eigenes .desktop file geben. 
Ich denke derjenige der für das control center zuständig 
ist sollte sich darum kümmern. Wie das von wem und wann 
zu realisieren ist muss Klaus und/oder Andreas entscheiden. 
 
---snap---- 
 
Klaus told me that there will be some work to handle this but 
nothing happened unfortunately. Well I provided the possibility 
but nobody makes use of it I still don't know who is responsible 
I think it's not me :-)

Comment 4 Klaus Kämpf 2005-08-18 08:46:38 UTC

We did the separation of text and graphics mode for mouse and keyboard. 
However, noone thought about graphics card and monitor so this issue has to be 
resolved later :-(

Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2005-08-19 12:18:27 UTC

ok

Comment 6 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:32:21 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:33:55 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:40:20 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:52:19 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(