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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Alternative to traditional (virtual) desktop: The Strip
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2005-12-05 18:46:24
Message-ID: 200512051946.24141.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Monday 05 December 2005 11:34, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:
> On Monday 05 December 2005 12:23, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > So this would be like an X setup with a greater virtual than physical
> > width but with kicker moving along instead of being expanded?
>
> Sort of, yes.

 Well, for a start you could try to configure your X this way, or use FVWM or 
other WM that implements this, maybe you'll change your mind after seeing it 
in practice (I remember that in the old days when my X sometimes ended up 
configured like this I found this feature completely unusable).

 If you get past that stage, this feature is usually called a viewport 
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html). Both KWin and 
the NET classes in kdecore have relevant support for it. Except for the 
actual functionality of course, the viewport is now always equal to the full 
screen size in the code now.

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Lubos Lunak
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