Bugzilla – Bug 105310
"Graphics Card and Monitor" module name in YaST no longer valid
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:52:19 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".
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?
yes sax can be called like this: sax2 --dialog <dialogname> . Monitor . Mouse . Keyboard . Tablet . Touchscreen . VNC
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 :-)
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 :-(
ok
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
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 ;(