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On Thursday 25 October 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 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 monito=
rs
> > with different resolutions, then at which coordinates do you position t=
he
> > 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?

the one it is "most" on, defaulting to the lowest screen number in case of =
a=20
tie. it's a simple heuristic, but it works. i used it for probably 1.5 year=
s.

> > 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.

right ... which complicates the code unnecessarily.

> > 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.

and just how do you support the multi-screen-of-different-resolution issue?=
 i=20
am _not_ comfortable with features that work only if the user does the righ=
t=20
thing with them. things should work reliably.

there are bug reports on kicker related to these exact issues. the solution=
 is=20
to either so "won't fix" (which pisses off those users, rightfully so) or t=
o=20
remove the feature since it is broken by design (which pisses off the peopl=
e=20
who have set up a configuration using that, rightfully so). i'd like to=20
prevent recreating that situation =3D)

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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