Feature changed by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #311322, revision 58 Title: Add Colours button to change your monitor's color depth or bit depth openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Roman Bysh (romanator) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I'm proposing we add a "Colours" button to the Display and Monitor settings. This will allow the user to change the color depth via the graphics card. Color depth explained -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_depth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In SaX2 the button was named "Colours". Click on the following link to view how it looked in SaX2: http://en.opensuse.org/File:YaST-Monitor.jpg Since SaX2 was deprecated and "xorg.conf" was being phased out. All openSUSE users have been missing a very valuable feature to dynamically change the color depth. This could be integrated into KDE 4.6x - 4.7x revisions. The following shows a sample of different color depth settings. Example: * 32-bit * 24-bit * 16-bit * 8-bit This could be an interesting project for the Summer of Code 2011. Let's vote to add this feature to the Display and Monitor - Display Settings in KDE and GNOME. Business case (Partner benefit): - openSUSE.org: This allows the user to increase or decrease a monitor's - color depth/resolution via the graphic card's driver settings or basic - settings provided by the kernel KMS. + openSUSE.org: This allows the user to change your monitor's color depth + with the click of a button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311322