On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:01:53 +0100 Kai Grossjohann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > > One problem with using a subset of your tags for a different > > screen occures, if a window is tagged with a tag from one screen > > and with another tag from a different screen. We cannot display > > a window on two screens, at least not mirrored (Xinerama allows > > to display portions of windows on different screens however) ;) > IMHO this is a non-problem. If the tags say that a window should be > visible on more than one head, then just display it on one of those > heads and omit it on the others. Who needs to see the same window twice? maybe someone who is showing a window to another ppl on a external monitor or projector not visible by the one who is working on the "local" monitor. But imho this is perfectly 'fixed' with the tagging concept. > Of course, that opens the question of which head to choose, but I > believe that a very simplistic approach of assigning a global order to > the heads would suffice. Make that order configurable. imho the order should be done in the same way of the zooming windows. > There is only one situation where I imagine that the user might be > surprised: Say the left head displays tags l1 and l2, and the right head > displays r1 and r2. And the window has tags l1 and r1. Say that the > left head is preferred. > > So the window is displayed on the left head. Suppose the user then > removes the tag l1 from the left head. This means that the window will > jump to the right head. This jumping of windows might be surprising. I would prefer to have an initial version to play with and get what's interesting and what's not. --pancake
