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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 50293] Cannot Span Panel Between Screens
From:       "Jens B.Benecke" <bugs.kde.org () jensbenecke ! de>
Date:       2002-12-16 13:26:34
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------- Additional Comments From bugs.kde.org@jensbenecke.de  2002-12-16 14:26 -------
Subject: Re:  Cannot Span Panel Between Screens

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 05:59:50AM -0000, Kevin Puetz wrote:

> Xinerama itself also handles nonrectangular screens fine... but it
> kicker blindly ignores the Xinerama extension and stretches itself
> across as it used to, there's no guarentee that that leaves the entire
> panel on-screen. Hence, the right answer is kicker with child panels,
> and with the stacking fixed. 

OK... I guess I can live with this for 3.1 ;)
  
> Unfortunately, there is no way the stacking is going to get fixed for
> 3.1... it's very deep, very fragile, and very broken. Fixing it right
> is going to take changes to the way kicker and kwin interact ..
> ..l the other bugs related to that topic), it's not a new issue, just
> a more exposed one on multihead now than before.

I can believe that. If you ever get the time to look into this, I'm
interested in how the "auto hide" feature in kicker works. I want kwin
to do the same for windows that are stuck to a desktop border. (eg.
licq, xosview, etc).

The alternative would be embedding licq, several xosview windows
(running remotely), and other stuff into a _large_ kicker child panel,
but I've never managed to do that.

I plan on taking some time browsing the KDE source during the Christmas
holidays, so a big help would be somebody who can tell me where to
start. ;)
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