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

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171 --- Comment #20 from Stewart Adam <s.adam(a)diffingo.com&gt; 2009-01-05 19:21:33 --- (In reply to comment #19) 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. As kwizart pointed out on IRC though, we're just shuffling around the documentation - instead of pointing them to the right driver package, we (or the other howto sites) will be pointing to rpmfusion-config-display instead. Either way, I guess it's still an improvement. 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. Those users need to be to easily create a working config file as well. Perhaps a no_install_checks= flag for the config file which would make rpmfusion-config-display assume all files are in place? 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. Generating radiobuttons dynamically is possible, but pretty cumbersome and it introduces way too much clutter if we consider the parallel-installable drivers which will be out sometime in the near future. Having 3 radiobuttons listed under Manual wouldn't be out too of the ordinary (for example if the user chooses to install nvidia's regular, beta, and legacy variants), and that's 7 radio buttons we're presenting to the user... If we go ahead with the above and display all of our variants to the user, that makes for 9 radio buttons by default, without any user additions. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.