GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 773147
Revamp the display panel UI
Last modified: 2017-11-01 17:04:14 UTC
The current display panel design is geared towards having a high number of available displays (when it was designed, we were envisaging having a potentially large number of wireless displays available). One of the disadvantages of this approach is that it doesn't perform so well in the (most common) 1 or 2 display cases. You have to delve into dialogs in order to change any settings, and the settings are treated as if they apply to each display individually (which doesn't fit particularly well when joining or mirroring, for example). To resolve these issues, an updated version of the designs has been produced. Most of the time, when you setup your displays you work within a global mode: you are either presenting something, joining displays together to create a larger workspace, or mirroring in order to give a demo. This new set of mockups attempts to reflect this logic in the display settings panel: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Displays#Tentative_Guidelines
We *really* need the presentation screen mode to be implemented before we can look into that. I'll make this a depends on the gnome-shell bug. Bug 706432 is about adding the presentation mode support without the redesign, if the functionality were to land in gnome-shell late in the cycle.
This got fixed for 3.26.