I totally agree that gnome-appearance-properties should NOT force you to install the proprietary driver, for a number of reasons:
1. The proprietary driver is buggy. It even renders compiz effects jerkily, whereas the open-source drivers work just fine (certainly on my card and, it seems, many others, if the bug report requesting whitelisting of ATI cards is anything to go by). 2. Even if I even edit /usr/bin/compiz to allow it to activate compiz.real using my card, gnome-appearance-properties STILL tries to force me to install fglrx when I enable compiz! I think it should be better integrated with compiz so that it only offers you the choice if compiz decides the card is blacklisted. 3. Isn't installing proprietary drivers against the philosophy of Ubuntu? So why does it try and force you to install them? And not even telling you what it's doing? I don't have a problem with it asking you if (and only if) it fails to run compiz normally, but it should let you know what it's doing. Note: not only does it tell you to reboot and try again if you select 'cancel', it also tells you to try again after rebooting if the installation fails (which will happen, for instance, if you have Synaptic running). -- gnome-appearance-properties shouldn't install restricted driver without asking https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202898 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
