From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 01 14:06:28 1999
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:06:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: multi-head
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On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I promised a time ago to take care of multi-head development issues in
> KDE. I was granted the required hardware.

Just to be sure that we are talking of the same thing: could you please
give a short survey on what a multi-headed display does under X?

Is it two different DISPLAYs, or is it one big virtual screen that resides
on two monitors?

[...]
> The other question is: given that Qt will not provide multi-head support
> in the next foreseeble future, given that the number of apps susceptible
> for multi-head requirements is limited, is it optimal to include multihead
> support in kdecore (kapplication, kconfig)?

I vote for making a subclass of the specific classes (if possible).
 
> Now secondary issues.
> 
> Is it of any use to consider per-screen locale support?

I don't think so.

> How kpanel content should be managed on a multi-head system? A single
> instance simultaneously displayed on all the screens? A different (icon
> layout) configuration on each screen (I'd find this confusing)?

Or one kpanel on the leftmost / rightmost / wherever screen?

--Stefan