On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Ilya Chernykh
On Tuesday 25 October 2011 18:59:30 you wrote:
This doesn't justify to *break* something working now.
I think only a tiny percent of openSUSE users use CRTs. Appealing to the arguments about market share we should decide whether we should bar introduction of modern technology in favor of a tiny minority that still uses old displays.
This is completely moot, even if you know 100% of users use LCD, you don't know the pixel layout, so you cannot produce correct output for all LCD monitors. And they do vary considerably between manufacturers.
To my impression, nearly all computer monitors use "RGB" layout, and the TVs use "BGR". But the percentage of those who attach TVs to the computer as a main screen, I think, small. Non-text information such as video and games are not affected, and even text with incorrect layout set looks not that much different on the TV, so the characters' corruption is quite difficult to spot.
That's true. It seems reasonable to me that somebody could throw together a quick GUI (it could be done using kdialog and shell) that is "run once" -- ask the user which of some set of settings looks the prettiest. That would eliminate the need to *guess* (perhaps incorrectly) and would /also/ let users know that somebody cares about how their fonts work. -- Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org