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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Multihead support for KDE 2.1
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () suse ! com>
Date:       2001-02-05 20:30:00
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Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > > 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.
 
I think Martin was referring to the fact that we are in a code-freeze
for 2.1 and adding new features is forbidden.. only bug fixes are
allowed.

Sounds like a cool feature for 2.2, though.
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Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
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