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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Release schedule clarifications
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: 2007-10-25 19:46:45
Message-ID: ffqrr5$h5p$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> 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?
When a window is visible on both screens, what panel do you show it on
for this option? Both?
> what about odd scenarios where the monitors are not left-right but
> top-bottom?
...then top/bottom panel does not make much sense, true... but
left/right panel would.
> 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.
I would guess this is a good chunk of users, though. I can surely live
with it for now (I don't have multi-screen panel), but I'm unconvinced
this feature should never be brought back.
--
Matthew
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