ATI Catalyst Control Center shows up in System->Preferences menu

[Rafał Cieślak]

After installing proprietary drivers for an ATI graphics card (fglrx) ATI Catalyst Control Center, the tool that is used for tuning the driver's settings, shows up in System->Preferences menu, while it should appear in System->Administration, because:

- Most changes done with this tool require root password
- It is used for hardware configuration
- Settings in there does neither define how will the system work, nor how will it deal with the graphics card, but how will this hardware itself work, so the settings are not preferences (well, correct me if I'm wrong).

It is just confusing to see this application, which contains low-level configuration and mostly requires root password, amongst others, that are used to choose settings concerning how will the system work.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this, however since this is a problem with a piece of proprietary software and we thus do no have access to the source code, we are unable to fix this. You should report this problem to the ATI developers.

[Rafał Cieślak (rafalcieslak256)]

In ubuntu 11.04 there is no more division between Preferences and Administration, so this bug is no longer valid.

[Daniel Letzeisen (dtl131)]

amd/aticccle now has a separate shortcut for admin privs.