[Bug 171] Review Request: rpmfusion-config-display - tool to manage proprietary graphic drivers

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171





--- Comment #21 from Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>  2009-01-05 20:23:11 ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > Ehh, why? Just let each x11-xorg-drv-foo package create a small subpackage
> > x11-xorg-drv-foo-hwinfo and track those in with a dep. Then you only have to do
> > a rebuild of r-c-d when new pacakge get introduced (which shouldn't happen that
> > often)
> That would work, and we would only have to update it when nVidia or ATI changes
> it's device support... We should probably name it rpmfusion-gpu-hwinfo or
> something similar as users might complain get confused about having a part of
> every GPU driver installed.

No; it IMHO definitely should be part of the driver package and completely auto
generated there. Maintaining such a package manually sounds way to complicated
to me -- especially when it comes to people that mix packages from updates,
updates-testing or other repos (rawhide, external)

> One problem we would have to work out ahead of time is how to determine when a
> driver is installed... We can check for our drivers via rpm-python, but say the
> user installs from nvidia.com.

Then he IMHO is own his own; improving our stuff and making things as easy as
possible is IMHO way more important then supporting corner cases that have
known downsides.

> I'm jumping back and forth here, but I've scanned through the Gnome HIG and it
> would be acceptable to use a drop-down menu or radio buttons. I think we should
> use a drop-down menu since we have no way of predicting what we need to
> display.

As mentioned on IRC: I dislike a "drop-down menu" solution, as you can't see 
directly what options are available. You instead and to create on the drop-down
box, which is error-prone. Hiding beta and legacy drivers also might get
harder. 

Maybe you mockup really is the best and the easiest mix of the two variants.


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