Bug 510276

Summary:	gnome-display-properties - confusing graphic outside of applet window
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Timms <dtimms>
Component:	control-center	Assignee:	Control Center Maintainer <control-center-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	11	CC:	control-center-maint, mclasen, rstrode
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Description David Timms 2009-07-08 14:50:55 UTC

Description of problem:
It seems like there is a bug where, when you click one of the display rectangles in the applet, a rectangle appears near the top edge of the the display. This has the word unknown inside it. It just looks like a programming bug.
It's very similar to what sometimes occurs in firefox: a window is opened and appears near the top left of the display, but there is only a title bar width height blue bar, about 5 mm wide.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
control-center-2.26.0-6.fc11.i586

Expected results:
After seeing this numerous times and thinking "what the" is happening here, it seems that is meant to label the display with a unique indicator. It currently fails be informative.

Additional sub text could be added to give a brief description of it's purpose.
1st screen:
"Display Screen A to Display 1"
"LCD panel showing 2560x1400 @ 50Hz"

2nd screen:
"Display Screen A to Display 2"
"Dell KL640 LCD display showing 2560x1400 @ 50Hz, clone of Screen A"

3rd screen:
"Display Screen B to Display 3"
"Sony KVL-56K4000 TV showing 1080x768 @ 100Hz, right of Screen A"

(at least I imagine that is how it could/should work).
Info:
I'm guessing one of these should get shown on each display in a multiple display scenario. 
What should happen when displays are in clone mode ? should the same indicator be visible on both displays ?

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2009-08-25 05:11:42 UTC

Cloned is cloned...there is no way to show something only one one monitor if they are cloned. 

The 'Unknown' should be fixed in current packages.

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