From kde-core-devel  Mon Feb 05 18:54:33 2001
From: Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:54:33 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Multihead support for KDE 2.1
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=98139943203507

On Monday 05 February 2001 19:15, Martin Konold wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Bradley T Hughes wrote:
> > I've been working on this for a couple of weeks now, and it 's fairly
> > polished.  Everything works so far, and applications show up on the
> > correct screens etc.  Even session management works :)
> >
> > I've attached the diffs, in case someone wants to take a look and try
> > them out (hint: Xnest -scrns 2 :4 simulates dualhead).  Are there any
> > objections to this going in for the 2.1 release?
>
> this is definetely a new feature and therefor does not belong into kde
> 2.1.
>


KDE 2.1 is about new features, it's not a bugfix release.

Brad's patch does not introduce any more GUI strings and (if carefully 
reviewed) doesn't change things on a singlehead display at all.

You need to explicitely set a switch in order to get a difference.


Matthias