Comment 7 for bug 428477

> Why are the xorg developers silent on this issue?

I was out on paternity leave the month of september. Also keep in mind we get hundreds of bug reports against X.org every week; I'd like to respond to every one personally but that would take far more time than I actually have.

> Therefore I request the xorg developers, to make displayconfig-gtk available

While I did help on maintaining displayconfig-gtk in Hardy, X.org does not actually maintain GUI configuration tools, rather that is the jurisdiction of GNOME/KDE/etc. displayconfig-gtk was proposed for addition to GNOME, but they refused it in favor of developing their own applet. Thus, any missing features in the current applet that displayconfig-gtk could do, is rather a wishlist bug against the applet. I don't know if/when they will fix it, but if this issue really bothers you I'd encourage you to talk to GNOME or even send in your own patch to them (if you do, take a look at xkit which has some logic for manipulating xorg.conf files.)

As far as resurrecting displayconfig-gtk, it would require a fairly massive reimplementation work to make it support Xrandr. This is outside the scope of xorg, and a WONTFIX from the displayconfig-gtk project since it is no longer being maintained.