| Summary: | Kscreen settings no longer shows display ID since 16.04 update | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] KScreen | Reporter: | jamese <james.ellis> |
| Component: | kcm | Assignee: | Sebastian Kügler <sebas> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | thomas.pfeiffer |
| Priority: | NOR | Flags: | mgraesslin:
Usability+
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| Version First Reported In: | 5.5.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Kubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | http://commits.kde.org/kscreen/71c5187ac9d3dc23989352322a31e445f7938dd9 | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 5.7.3 |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Highlighting where Display ID is missing | ||
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Description
jamese
2016-05-02 01:09:51 UTC
Created attachment 98741 [details]
Highlighting where Display ID is missing
Only way to see display ID is in the rectangular highlighted area.
Clicking the (I)nfo icon does show the Display ID along with Manufacturer and Model #
Have you seen the "Identify outputs" function (the little "i" in the lower-right corner)? If so: Why does this not solve your problem? The reason why I'm asking is that I don't see how "DP1-2" should be useful information to many users, so I'd like to see if we can solve the problem of having multiple monitors of the same model in a better way. Thanks for the response. Consider that hitting the [i] info button shows on screen eith DP1-1 or DP1-2, which is great but there is no correlation with the 'Display ID' on the OSD and the related "Dell Inc, Dell U2414H" labelled screen in the settings window, as those labels don't include DP1-1 or DP1-2. The only way to see which of the screens is DP1-1 and which is DP1-2 is to click on the screen and look at the title above the "Display [ ] Enabled" checkbox. Previously, as I knew my DP1-2 screen was the left one, I could just look at the screen layout presented and drag and drop it to the left, then DP1-1 to the right. Didn't have to click the "i" or look at the screen title. The recent change added an extra step when you have two identical external screens. There is a previous version with the "Display id" here, in this case HDM1 - https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.2/kscreen.png If the label for the screen said "DP1-1/2, Dell Inc, U2414H" that'd solve the issue. Thanks! Confirmed, we should also show the screen name. Proposed fix: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2248 That looks good although I'd put the larger text at the top followed by the smaller text: -------------------- | BRAND | | model | | output | -------------------- Laptop Screen probably doesn't need the Output ID as I doubt a laptop would ship with two screens ? Doesn't hurt if it shows, though. Also, great to see KDE using Phabricator, it's awesome, maybe Maniphest is on the horizon as a bug tracker ? Thanks Git commit e6b052db712fbc1d773f0b03220fab9754db0faf by Sebastian Kügler.
Committed on 25/07/2016 at 11:23.
Pushed by sebas into branch 'master'.
[kcm] Show output name in output preview
Summary:
When identical displays are connected, the identify overlay would display
the output name, while the preview in the kcm displays the display vendor
and model. There's no way to tell which display is which.
This patch adds a row in the output preview, it moves the vendor up,displays and displays the output name underneath (if not duplicated).
Before: {F190822}
After: {F190823}
Test Plan:
started kcm with multiple displays connected, I can now distinguish them
based on the name of the connector
Reviewers: #plasma, graesslin
Reviewed By: #plasma, graesslin
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2248
M +21 -7 kcm/qml/Output.qml
http://commits.kde.org/kscreen/e6b052db712fbc1d773f0b03220fab9754db0faf
Git commit 71c5187ac9d3dc23989352322a31e445f7938dd9 by Sebastian Kügler.
Committed on 25/07/2016 at 22:15.
Pushed by sebas into branch 'Plasma/5.7'.
[kcm] Show output name in output preview
Summary:
When identical displays are connected, the identify overlay would display
the output name, while the preview in the kcm displays the display vendor
and model. There's no way to tell which display is which.
This patch adds a row in the output preview, it moves the vendor up,displays and displays the output name underneath (if not duplicated).
FIXED-IN:5.7.3
Before: {F190822}
After: {F190823}
Test Plan:
started kcm with multiple displays connected, I can now distinguish them
based on the name of the connector
Reviewers: #plasma, graesslin
Reviewed By: #plasma, graesslin
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2248
M +21 -7 kcm/qml/Output.qml
http://commits.kde.org/kscreen/71c5187ac9d3dc23989352322a31e445f7938dd9
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