From kde-core-devel Thu Oct 25 16:36:42 2007 From: Andreas Pakulat Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:36:42 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Release schedule clarifications Message-Id: <20071025163642.GC30934 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=119333062632636 On 25.10.07 10:31:52, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > > > Last but not least: The panel doesn't expand over both screens, but > > > > also > > > > > > it's not supposed to > > > > So I can't have it expand over both screens? :( I like that feature in > > kicker very much. > > no, the concept is broken in many ways. for one, if you have two monitors with > different resolutions, then at which coordinates do you position the panel > exactly? when doing things like "show only windows on current screen" in a > taskbar where the taskbar is split between screens, what do you do? what > about odd scenarios where the monitors are not left-right but top-bottom? > > multi-screen panels work in pretty much exactly one configuration: panel at > the top or bottom with 2 or more monitors with the same resolution in a > left-to-right configuration. they break in every pretty much every other > case. Understood and accepted :) I do use that one configuration though, but I guess I can as well work with 2 panels, once that feature is available. > you can, of course, put a panel (or multiple panels) on each screen. this is > actually what i ended up doing when i used to have a xinerama set up at work. > even with kicker it worked better that way. The only downside with my current setup is that I need to fix kicker, else it sometimes jumps back to being on only 1 screen (IIRC when accidentally moving an applet) > the only thing that works better with one panel on multiple screens is that > you could drag applets along the width of a panel without doing an external > drag and drop; so .... a fairly trivial improvement that isn't overly > annoying in the best of times. Well, for me its also that I'd need the space for the taskmanager, I have 1.25 screens for that currently, which is pretty impossible with 2 panels I think. Andreas -- Increased knowledge will help you now. Have mate's phone bugged.