From kde-core-devel Thu Oct 25 19:49:20 2007 From: Andreas Pakulat Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:49:20 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Release schedule clarifications Message-Id: <20071025194920.GC21608 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=119334214319700 On 25.10.07 13:35:07, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > > 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. > > yep. there are two things i can think of: > > - do as i used to with my xinerama setup and have a taskbar on each screen > with "show windows on this screen only" turned on. that quickly became my > favourite mode (well... i implemented it so .. yeah. haha.. guess why?) > > - we work really, really hard on making the taskbar more ergonomic than the > kicker one over the next couple of releases so it fits nicely back on just 1 > screen =) this is the "putting the daunting challenge in front of yourself to > force the production of better ideas" approach, but i'm ok with that. > > i'll work my hardest to make the above happen at least by 4.1 .... fair > enough? =) Thats what I like about KDE, you tell somebody a small complaint (seriously I'd probably be able to manage without a real solution for that) and the response is: "Hey, there are these options.., number one should be doable for the next minor version, I'll see what I can do". I always thought the "show only windows on this screen" would refer to virtual desktops and not screens in terms of multiple screens in a Xinerama setup. So yeah, that option number one above works perfectly fine and I'm able to wait until 4.2 if you have other things to do first :) Andreas -- You will have domestic happiness and faithful friends.