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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76f7ee0 --- /dev/null +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -0,0 +1,334 @@ +- Handle "ain't got no cpufreq" more gracefully (Malone bug # 99198) +- Fix typo in mountconfig that lead to a crash (Malone bug # 87861) +- BUG: Fix detection of the nvidia proprietary driver (Malone bug #104860) +- BUG: Displayconfig and displayconfig-restore.py would crash in combination + with later versions Xorg if the xrandr extension was not available. + (Malone bug #91545) + +* Wednesday 29 March 2007 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.8 +- Deal with AttributeError in displayconfigabstraction (Malone bug #94108) +- Add menu to choose CPU frequency policy manually +- Handle problems not being able to read the filesystem label gracefully +- Make displayconfig-restore not crash on incorrect modelines (Malone bug # 76393) +- Make displayconfig a little smarter when the preferred resolution can't be found +- Make wineconfig not crash on empty fstab lines +- Fix the fuser frontend in mountconfig to actually work again. +- Handle ZeroDivisionError in displayconfig gracefully (Malone bug #77844) +- Support for LABEL in fstab added to mountconfig, improved support for + UUID. +- Support for changing CPU frequency policy with HAL added to powermanager. +- Suspend after N minutes idle added to powermanager +- Added an option to not lock screen on resume (Malone bug # 64650) +- Handle crash in userconfig due to problems with locale (Malone bug #65739) +- Support for UUIDs in fstab added to mountconfig. +- grubconfig added. (Martin Böhm) + +* Tuesday 6 March 2007 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.7.1 +- BUG: Fixed typo in userconfig.py. (thanks to Rocco Stanzione) +- BUG: Fix double hibernate call on lid close. (Malone bug #65885) +- BUG: Change CHARGE_LEVEL_THRESHOLD to 10% (was 50%) to better workaround + acpi issue. when remaining_time is not reported correctly. Also use + threshold for battery low notification warning. (Malone bug #64752, + #67081) +- BUG: Handle error in locale.getpreferredencoding gracefully. (Malone bug + #65739) +- BUG: DPMS settings had not been saved on Apply, do that. +- BUG: Fix crash where cpu frequency scaling is not readable. +- BUG: Fix unicode and localisation handling in targetgamma, do a better job + choosing the right resolutions for example for nvidia twinview and other + unusual resolutions. +- BUG: Powermanager, first read config, then adapt the state of the UI from + those values. +- BUG: Don't crash displayconfig-restore when screenwidth and height are + bogus, use a sensible value of 96 instead. (Malone bug #77844) +- BUG: Make displayconfig-restore not crash on unknown modelines. +- BUG: Make tempfile handling more robust by using Python's tempfile. +- BUG: Check for None groupids in userconfig. +- BUG: Clear password edit after exiting the edit dialog in userconfig. +- BUG: Make AC adapter detection more robust to potential failure of + actions. (Malone bug #77091) +- BUG: permissions on groupfile should've been read, before they can be set. +- BUG: Check for valid groupid when selecting in userconfig. +- BUG: gamma settings were not being restored after logging in. +- BUG: A rounding error was causing problems in displayconfig when filtering + resolutions by the selected monitor. +- BUG: Displayconfig, userconfig and wineconfig didn't handle RTL desktops + correctly. (Diego lastrubni) +- BUG: Displayconfig would sometimes consider some widescreen modes as being + standand aspect ratio. +- BUG: Displayconfig would sometimes fail to set Display virtual size in + xorg.conf. +- BUG: Stopped displayconfig from stacktracing when it encounters a + degenerate gfx card + monitor combination that has no valid resolutions. + +* Thursday 12 October 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.7 +- BUG: Don't bail out of laptop-detect is not there (Malone bug #60309) +- BUG: mountconfig.py didn't handle USB disks correctly. (KDE bug #132390) +- BUG: Disable double click opening items in mountconfig if the user is not + root. +- BUG: Don't bail out if the device section is already there (Malone bug #50411) +- BUG: Don't show new_user in the secondary groups (Malone bug #44203) +- BUG: userconfig set wrong uid for new users (Malone bug #56275) +- BUG: serviceconfig.py would sometimes fail on non-English systems. + (Malone bug #43313). +- BUG: userconfig would sometimes fail when writing the shadow password file. + (Malone bug #47090) +- BUG: userconfig would fail if the password warning field in /etc/shadow was + empty. (Malone bug #47317) +- Changed a couple of labels in order to match the new system-settings spec: + https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuSystemSettingsUsability +- mountconfig now uses CIFS for Windows Shares instead of obsolete smbfs. + (Martin Böhm) +- Displayconfig now hides useless Monitor Orientation and Second Screen group + box options which can never be activated without changing hardware or the + X driver. +- Simplified the color and gamma tab in displayconfig. +- BUG: Better detection for dualhead intel chips in displayconfig. +- Updated the data files for displayconfig from + http://cvs.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft/ldetect-lst/trunk/lst/?root=svn +- wineconfig added for configuring Wine. (Yuriy Kozlov) +- powermanager applet added for monitoring laptop power levels (Sebastian + Kügler) + +* Saturday 13 May 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.7 +- Dutch translation added (Rinse de Vries) +- BUG: Displayconfig would fail if the monitor frequency settings in xorg.conf + contained extra spaces. (Malong bug #38692) +- BUG: Displayconfig would not add the lowest screen resolution available to + the modes list in the xorg.conf's Screen section/Display subsection. +- French translation added from Launchpad Rossetta. + +* Friday 28 April 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.6 +- BUG: Serviceconfig didn't correctly remove links in runlevel directories. + (Malone bug #39404) +- BUG: In Serviceconfig, toggling the "Start during boot" checkbox using the + context menu would fail. (Malone bug #34252) +- BUG: displayconfig-restore.py was would fail with "global name 'syslog' + undefined". (Malone bug #40683) +- BUG: Displayconfig had trouble picking a driver gfxcard model entry instead + of the detected default (e.g. VESA). (Malone bug #41127) +- BUG: Displayconfig would fail when writing out a xorg.conf that contained + non-ascii characters. (Malone bug #41474) +- Work around for an annoying bug in PyQt/PyKDE that causes the tools to + crash on exit if a dialog window has been used. +- BUG: The file paths used in displayconfig for checking for the proprietary + nvidia driver were wrong or out of date. + +* Tuesday 18 April 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.5 +- BUG: services that have not been installed via apt would cause long loops + a lot of dpkg queries. Only query dpkg db once. +- BUG: Serviceconfig's Apply button doesn't work. It should actually be Close + (Malone #38582) +- BUG: Changing an user's password can change another password for a different + user (Malone bug #39444) +- BUG: Displayconfig would fail at startup on systems with an nVidia 7800 GTX. + (Malone bug #32915 for Rob Hughes) +- BUG: Serviceconfig would crash if the windows is closed quickly after + serviceconfig appears. +- BUG: userconfig would fail at startup if an entry in /etc/passwd refered to + a group that is not defined in /etc/group. (Malone bug #34311) +- BUG: Userconifg. Manually typing in or editing the list of secondary groups + for a user had no effect. (Malone bug #37212) +- BUG: Displayconfig fails to detect the presence of the proprietary ATI and + nVidia drivers. (The location of some of the driver files had been recently + changed). +- BUG: displayconfig-restore.py would calculated the needed DPI at login using + stale screen information which would sometimes result in the wrong DPI. +- BUG: Numerious small bugs and compatibility problems in mountconfig. +- BUG: When browsing for a SMB share, mountconfig now correctly catches the + authentication information entered by the user into the smaller popup from + kio. +- Displayconfig now assumes that dualhead/clone mode is supported if the + laptop-detect script detects a laptop. +- Displayconfig now uses the clone mode support in the i810 driver. +- Displayconfig now only offers resolutions that both monitors support when + using clone mode. +- Displayconfig now supports clone mode on any setup that also supports + xinerama. +- BUG: Mountconfig failed to take into account that the order of the + user/users, exec/noexc, suid/nosuid etc options in /etc/fstab is significant. + (thanks Christoph Wiesen) +- French translations added to the desktop files. (Anthony Mercatante) + +* Sunday 2 April 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.4 +- BUG: All of the tools no longer write out config files under ~/.kde when + running as root. This should stop the annoying creation of config files + that can't be overwritten by the normal user. +- Userconfig is now by default not quite as tall. This should help stop + it from appearing too big in systemsettings. +- Displayconfig updated to also recognise late model nVidia chipsets. +- BUG: Displayconfig didn't support Clone mode for the proprietary nVidia + driver. +- BUG: The tools now correctly specify which translation catalogue to use for + translations. +- The screen images in the dualhead widget make better use of available widget + space. +- Displayconfig: The 40guidance-displayconfig_restore script which is used by + the Xsession script during login via KDM/xdm, has now been fixed to not stop + the login in case of failure. +- BUG: Displayconfig was getting confused by unknown graphics cards and + crashing. (Malone bug #32915) +- BUG: Displayconfig still can't handling unicode in xorg.conf. (Malone bug + #34437). +- BUG: Displayconfig is now more forgiving when xorg.conf contains characters + that are illegal with respect to the system character encoding. (Malone bug + #36590). +- BUG: Displayconfig would have trouble detecting hardware on the PCI bus on + big endian architectures. (raphink) +- BUG: Displayconfig did not correctly handle situations where the X RandR + extension is missing. +- BUG: Displayconfig would fail when loading some xorg.conf files containing + multiple graphics card specifications. (Malone bug #37275, patch applied) +- BUG: Userconfig didn't respect the entered UID when creating a account. + (Malone bug #37722). +- Displayconfig: Added 1280x960 modes (60 & 75Hz). + +* Friday 17 March 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.3 +- BUG: userconfig and unixauthdb didn't respect the ownership of system files + when update /etc/passwd and friends. (Malone bug #26175). +- BUG: userconfig and unixauthdb would fail if /etc/passwd, /etc/groups or + /etc/shadow contained blank lines. +- BUG: displayconfig now does a better job of detecting graphics PCI devices + and handling non-detected graphics cards. Instead of crashing, "generic + VESA" is used when the type of card can't be found. (Malone bug #32915) +- The DPI that displayconfig-restore.py uses at login time can now be + controlled by adding a line to ~/.kde/share/config/displayconfigrc + in the [General] section. Add "dpi=xserver" to use the default DPI + from the X server, or "dpi=100" to use 100 DPI for example. +- BUG: Widescreen modes were missing in displayconfig. +- Displayconfig: Monitors can now be specified as being standard aspect ratio + or widescreen. +- BUG: Using the xresprobe command in displayconfig would crash some people's + machines. The much more safer ddcprobe command is now used. + (Malone bug #33943) +- BUG: A bug is displayconfig stopped monitor model detection. The xresprobe + command didn't actually return the eisa ID of the connected monitor. + ddcprobe does though (see above). +- BUG: Displayconfig. Changes to the monitor model or image format are + shown immediately on the "Size & Orientation" tab, even if the screen is + currently being used. +- BUG: When userconfig asks about whether the home directory should be created + when creating a new account, sometimes the wrong directory name was shown in + the dialog. +- BUG: Powerbook screen mode "1280x854" add to displayconfig. (Malone bug + #34383). +- BUG: Displayconfig would throw an exception if the current display didn't + support DPMS. (Malone bug #34316). +- BUG: Most utilities would fail if they came across UTF-8 or unicode + characters. (Malone bug #34194). +- BUG: Displayconfig wouldn't correctly detect the presence of installed + proprietary drivers. (OculusAquilae) +- BUG: Displayconfig had trouble handling BusID rows in xorg.conf. This would + cause the xorg.conf to be incorrectly read. (Tonio) +- Added some extra methods to ScanPCI.py to aid debugging. +- BUG: Displayconfig would not save the user's display settings when running + in kcontrol or systemsettings. (Malone bug #35257) + +* Wednesday 1 March 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.2 +- BUG: Small bug in displayconfig that caused it to bug out around the + newCustomMonitor() method. +- BUG: userconfig had space character just before the she-bang which really + caused some trouble the for the shell. +- BUG: Displayconfig: Selecting the "Plug n Play" monitor directly without + clicking on "Detect" meant that only a very small set of resolutions would + be written to xorg.conf. +- BUG: The DPI calculations in displayconfig-restore.py where broken. This + resulted in the wrong DPI being used. +- BUG: Displayconfig: The clone mode option is now correctly disabled for + Matrox cards (mga driver). +- BUG: Displayconfig would bug out if the monitor model in the xorg.conf was + anything other than Plug n Play. +- BUG: Displayconfig would bug out if the DPMS Standby setting was 0 and DPMS + enabled. +- Displayconfig is now shown in kcontrol under settings/hardware instead of + settings/system. +- BUG: Small bug in displayconfig that will causes displayconfig to bug out + when trying to detect the monitor and no EDID info is available. +- BUG: Small cosmetic bug in displayconfig where the some tabs were missing + margins when shown in kcontrol/system settings. +- BUG: displayconfig would bug out when detecting ATI dualhead cards. + (pci_device.text was None). + +* Monday 20 February 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.1 +- displayconfig-hwprobe.py now saves its scan info in + /var/lib/guidance/guidance-gfxhardware-snapshot. +- "Details..." button added to mountconfig in addition to the context menu for + opening the disk info dialog. +- BUG: serviceconfig: When starting and stopping daemons, the scripts expect a + terminal that understands colours. The command runner dialog doesn't, and + you end up seeing garbage characters. TERM is now set to vt100 when running + commands. +- BUG: displayconfig: Reset button didn't reset all of the parts/fields in the + GUI. +- Detect dualhead Matrox cards. +- displayconfig-restore.py now at login time also chooses and sets a 'sane' + DPI setting used by applications for fonts. More info is in the + displayconfig-restore.py source file. +- BUG: displayconfig-restore.py wasn't restoring the user's display resolution + at login. +- Plug N Play monitors are handled much better and are automatically probed + when neccessary. + +* Tuesday 14 February 2006 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.6.0 +- Right mousebutton action for most listviews. +- mountconfig can now handle multi-fs entries. +- i18n() all over the place. +- Dualhead support added to displayconfig. +- displayconfig's hardware database files updated from Mandriva. +- numerous bug fixes. +- displayconfig-hwprobe.py add. This is Ubuntu specific right now, but + what it does is detect hardware changes at boottime and automatically + run "dpkg-reconfigure" to generate a xorg.conf file that will get Xorg + running. + +* Tuesday 29 November 2005 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.5.0 +- displayconfig should now work for single head configurations. +- displayconfig has a shiney new preview. +- displayconfig is now usable on low resolution screens. +- DPMS tab cleaned up in displayconfig. +- displayconfig's hardware database files updated from Mandriva. + +* Monday 12 September 2005 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.4.0 +- displayconfig has been massively restructured internally. +- numerous bug fixes. +- start of dualhead support in displayconfig. +- When umount fails in mountconfig the option to killing blocking processes + has been added. +- better Debian support in serviceconfig. It now uses apt and dpkg to get + service descriptions. +- ext3 added to mountconfig. :) +- userconfig now respects /etc/useradd.conf +- Now uses PyKDE Extensions for building and installation. + http://www.simonzone.com/software/pykdeextensions/ +- DPMS tab added to displayconfig. + +* Tuesday 5 April 2005 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.3.0 +- Displayconfig working and also feature complete. +- xf86config C module has been removed and replaced with pure Python. +- Numerous little bugs fixed in the userconfig, mountconfig and serviceconfig. + +* Thursday 9 December 2004 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> +- version 0.2.0 +- mountconfig added, beta quality, feature complete. +- displayconfig added, alpha quality, not feature complete. +- userconfig, beta quality, feature complete. +- serviceconfig, beta quality, feature complete. + +* Thursday 20 November 2003 Simon Edwards <[email protected]> + +- version 0.1.0 +- Initial release. |