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Code: bluesabre/display-settings branch

Target: Xfce 4.12, Implementation: 100%

• Support extended desktop mode for multiple monitors
• Improve minimal dialog

Status: Wait for testing/bugreports for 4.11.0.

Target: , Implementation: 0%

• Replace treeview with iconview
• Support xfce4-notifyd's themes for the identity-popups
• Support setting the primary monitor (Related bug: 9338)
• Create “display profiles” (save setups based on EDID)

• Implement support for extended desktop mode
• Improve minimal dialog
• Use new big icons to make minimal dialog easier to understand
• Implement display identification popups
• Improve applying new settings (now works with Nvidia's proprietary driver as well)
• Fix small naming inconsistencies

The minimal dialog can be called when a new display is plugged in (given that the laptop send the appropriate signal). It should provide users quick access to four of the most-used modes:

• Only Display 1
• Extend desktop to the right
• Mirror displays
• Only Display 2

The “Advanced” button opens the normal display-dialog.

The main thing that changed here are the comboboxes to change the monitor position and the mirror-checkbox. (Note: the mirror-mode in the position-combobox only sets the currently selected display to mirror _one_ other display. This is mostly relevant in 2+ displays setups.) The comboboxes give the user a way of positioning always 2 displays relative to each other. In total, users can still position as many displays as they have. Four positions are available: left-of, above, right-of, below.

For users to more easily know what display they're currently modifying, we decided to implement “identity-popups”. These show the name of the display (same as in the treeview) and the resolution. These popups are currently shown at the bottom of the respective display.

Normal dialog:

• Fix xfconf channel binding warning
• Code review
• Add code for “identifying popups”
  • Fix wrong position and values after a display has been disabled
  • Re-color the currently selected display
• Check why xrandr works better with Nvidia proprietary than our code
• Fix rotation code with extended desktop mode
• Change rotation-combo-entry-name from “normal” to “none”

Minimal dialog:

• Add the 10sec-reset-timeout dialog just to be sure
• Debug/fix segfault after setting Mirror, then Extend Right
• 4 options: Only Primary, Mirror, Extend Right, Only Secondary
  • draw icons
  • implement in code
• Hook up Advanced button
• Consider dropping “presentation mode”

General:

• Fix 3 commit authors (merge locally, then rebase interactive on origin/master and set a new committer)
• Celebrate the release!