On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:40:12 Björn Ruberg wrote: > 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.
Yes, I've had that problem. > 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 :) I'm not sure having multiple places where you can configure the same thing is a good idea. Also, I think that Plasma Widgets shouldn't be configuration interfaces. But it's only what I think, and people usually love widgets on theyr desktop :) > 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. Centralizing everything in on library (Kephal for instance), is IMHO a good idea. > So, it would be great if > Kephal could become a GSOC project. I think so too :-) > 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. It would be great to have something that works with friendly drivers first. Detlev.
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