What about letting System->Preferences->Screen Resolution run nividia-settings when the closed nvidia driver is detected? gnome-display-properties could be made a wrapper script to choose between them, e.g. by querying for the NV-CONTROL extension.
-- no icon for nvidia settings in gnome menu https://launchpad.net/bugs/22297 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
