Sure, every tool starts off doing the one thing it was first designed for.
I'm just saying "why not have one GUI" than writing something new and different for the functions that driconf doesn't handle today ? Whatever the new GUI is it'll probably end up just being another Python+GTK/QT thing anyways.
I've probably seen a dozen people post "well I would work on <GUI> but I don't know how to get started" just this year - and yet there is a working code base already there that would make a perfectly good starting point. The only reason it's dated is because nobody has felt it needed to be updated.
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Originally posted by bridgman View PostWhy not just improve driconf ? It has been open source for almost 15 years, and the worst thing anyone seems to be able to say about it is "I don't like the way the GUI looks".
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With respect, you still haven't identified anything wrong with driconf as a starting point for a GUI.
If we agree that continuing to work on getting the functionality implemented in the driver is a pre-requisite then why are we talking about GUI tools at all ?
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
EDIT - I did a bit of searching trying to find the earlier discussion about driconf you mentioned, but with no success. Can you point me to it please ?
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
Huh ? What did you think I meant by "improve" ? There is nothing in driconf that prevents it from being extended to include the features you mentioned - it's just python + GTK IIRC.
That said, almost everything you listed needs driver work first - the GUI is just the final step once the driver plumbing is in place.
EDIT - I did a bit of searching trying to find the earlier discussion about driconf you mentioned, but with no success. Can you point me to it please ?
EDIT: The conclusion is and has been for well over a decade that configuration options valuable to a control panel simply don't exist. Or are not mesa configuration, like toggling tearfree or monitoring sensors and already have fragmented guis all over the place.
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I think a GUI is one of the last things AMD need to worry about. They still have a lot of work to do even in the Windows drivers department in terms of stability.
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Originally posted by duby229 View PostOh that's just not true... You and I have have talked about this on this very forum, so that statement is a flat out lie.
EDIT: Yes it is true driconfs GUI sucks as, and yes that usually is the first complaint you hear. But that isn't it's problem. It doesn't do a ton of things a graphical control panel needs to do, like override antialiasing, or toggling the HUD, or graphing clock speeds, or configuring fan profiles, etc, etc, etc.... I mean really the list of all the things driconf -can't- do is long as fuck.
That said, almost everything you listed needs driver work first - the GUI is just the final step once the driver plumbing is in place.
EDIT - I did a bit of searching trying to find the earlier discussion about driconf you mentioned, but with no success. Can you point me to it please ?Last edited by bridgman; 30 December 2017, 11:40 PM.
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Originally posted by bridgman View Post
Why not just improve driconf ? It has been open source for almost 15 years, and the worst thing anyone seems to be able to say about it is "I don't like the way the GUI looks".
EDIT: Yes it is true driconfs GUI sucks as, and yes that usually is the first complaint you hear. But that isn't it's problem. It doesn't do a ton of things a graphical control panel needs to do, like override antialiasing, or toggling the HUD, or graphing clock speeds, or configuring fan profiles, etc, etc, etc.... I mean really the list of all the things driconf -can't- do is long as fuck.Last edited by duby229; 30 December 2017, 05:50 PM.
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If you want something like this, it's something the Linux community needs to tackle in general. We used to support a settings GUI on fglrx and it was painful to support because every desktop environment stored display state differently and constantly changed their interfaces. Updates to GNOME or KDE broke the GUI constantly. Users would try to use the GUI on some slightly less mainstream desktops and it would not always work leading them to blame the driver rather than the desktop. Add the various wayland environments to the mix and things get even trickier.
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never understood the need of this windows style graphic setting ui, for professional use I vastly prefer software / driver properties and attributes, and tweaking /sys values, :_/
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