Comment 4 for bug 39140

Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:
> Fabio Massimo Di Nitto at 2006-04-27 17:13:34 EEST wrote:
>> There is no way to decide what is best for user A or B.
>> This request conflicts with what tons of other users asked the other way around.
>
> It's not true - there is a simple way to check if CRT monitor supports 75 or 85 Hz mode at recommended resolution, so, there is no reason to select higher mode with 60 Hz refresh.
>
> according to TCO99 standard vertical refresh frequency *must* be >=85Hz (look at Section 2 (Visual ergonomic
> - Image stability) of TCO99:

You totally missed the point here. Users did ask for both situations:

- higher resolutions lower refresh rate
- lower resolutions higher refresh rate.

The 2 clashes and there is no way to make both of them happy.

> I don't understand the resistance shown by Ubuntu developers to offering the medically best resolution to non-technical users by default...
>
> Btw, I'm developer of Ubuntu-based distribution - Baltix GNU/Linux and I will improve default resolution choosing for CRT monitors method in Baltix distro if Ubuntu developers don't care about users health.
>
> ** Also affects: Baltix
> Severity: Normal
> Priority: (none set)
> Status: Unconfirmed
>

You did spend a great deal of time on urls and stuff. You are a developer, why
don't you spend your time providing a patch instead of whining?

Fabio

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I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.