Display Preferences Monitor identification should be optional

Bug #403840 reported by komputes
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One Hundred Papercuts
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gnome-control-center
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

This is a feature request for gnome-display-properties to make the monitor identification optional and off by default. If you are unsure what the monitor identification is, I have attached a picture to explain. It may have another name but this is what I know it as.

The rationale behind this request is basic usability. Many times, people will only use the display preferences to set up an external monitor or projector for a short period of time. By not closing gnome-display-properties, the monitor identification is there constantly, and on top of every other window/menu (but below the cursor). I have seen too many presentations, with the monitor/projector was identified, to go on without reporting a feature request.

Looking at how other OSs do this, there is an Identify or Identify Monitors button which then displays the monitor number. Perhaps we should have a checkbox that turns on and off the monitor identification option.

komputes (komputes)
summary: Feature Request: gnome-display-properties - Display Preferences Monitor
- identification should be an option/button
+ identification should be optional
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → New
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komputes (komputes) wrote : Re: Feature Request: gnome-display-properties - Display Preferences Monitor identification should be optional
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, no need to write feature request in the title launchpad has a wishlist status

summary: - Feature Request: gnome-display-properties - Display Preferences Monitor
- identification should be optional
+ Display Preferences Monitor identification should be optional
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.32.1-0ubuntu10

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gnome-control-center (1:2.32.1-0ubuntu10) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Bump build-depends on libgnome-desktop-dev to use patched version that
      supports toggling of monitor labels
  * debian/patches/05_display_capplet_label_focus.patch:
    - Only show monitor labels when display applet has focus (LP: #403840)
 -- Robert Ancell <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:49:32 +1100

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Papercutters - I merged in duplicate bug 610802 which had been marked as a papercut

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Fix Released
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
assignee: nobody → Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja)
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Chris Wilson, No need to assign bugs to the ninja team _after_ they have been fixed. The assign is just notification mail of a new bug available to be fixed.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee: Papercuts Ninja (papercuts-ninja) → nobody
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Marcus Haslam (marcus-haslam) wrote : Re: [Bug 403840] Re: Display Preferences Monitor identification should be optional

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 8 May 2011, at 15:54, Bug Watch Updater <email address hidden>
wrote:

> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center
>       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403840
>
> Title:
>  Display Preferences Monitor identification should be optional
>
> Status in GNOME Control Center:
>  Fix Released
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  This is a feature request for gnome-display-properties to make the
>  monitor identification optional and off by default. If you are unsure
>  what the monitor identification is, I have attached a picture to
>  explain. It may have another name but this is what I know it as.
>
>  The rationale behind this request is basic usability. Many times,
>  people will only use the display preferences to set up an external
>  monitor or projector for a short period of time. By not closing
> gnome-
>  display-properties, the monitor identification is there constantly,
>  and on top of every other window/menu (but below the cursor). I have
>  seen too many presentations, with the monitor/projector was
>  identified, to go on without reporting a feature request.
>
>  Looking at how other OSs do this, there is an Identify or Identify
>  Monitors button which then displays the monitor number. Perhaps we
>  should have a checkbox that turns on and off the monitor
>  identification option.

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