Hello, I fully agree with Detlev's points. The multiscreen management is very bad in KDE currently, although in KDE 4.4 it is a little better than in KDE 4.3. Every time I want to plug a beamer to my laptop in university I have to fight up to one minute getting every thing correct - and the other students using MacOS or Windows laugh at me. KDE and Linux makes no good impression concerning multi screens - and that is no "special" feature but one that is much needed everywhere and everyday.
The problem for me is not the intel-driver. I can get everything as I want with xrandr. It is a interface problem! I wrote some mails about this on kde-devel half a year ago and wanted to do a plasmoid myself. Sadly I have not the free time to do such a project on my own as long the underlying libarys are not in better shape. My own screen management plasmoid is here: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/screen_control/ Add this to Wills list of related work :) It uses Kephal just for reading in data - for actually changing anything it makes command line calls to xrandr. That may sound ugly but it works - at least it works much better than kephal does in changing screen configuration. If Kephal would not only be useable for finding out your screen configuration but could actually change it, I'm quite confident I would bring this applet in a good and working shape. So, it would be great if Kephal could become a GSOC project. Even if proprietary nvidia drivers would not work (what may be worked around by an abstraction layer) it would be a great improvement. In the current state you have no good time with multiple screens in KDE with any driver you can use. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
