On Friday 18 April 2014 14:24:35 Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Martin Gräßlin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Friday 18 April 2014 13:52:20 Martin Klapetek wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > if there's no plasma config existing, plasma is run for the first time > > > > in a > > > > > multi-screen env, should plasma create a (default) panel on each screen? > > > > thinking out load: if plasma is without config and started in a > > multi-screen > > env that means it's also for kscreen the first time. How does kscreen > > handle > > this case? Start in clone mode or in extended? If it starts in clone mode > > it's > > kind of awkward if the user changes to extended and another panel is > > created. > > Maybe even make it difficult to notice whether the command succeeded - > > still > > looks like cloned. > > > > If it starts expanded then there's also the possibility that the user > > might > > think it's cloned because both screens look the same. > > > > On the other hand having two screens and only a panel on one might seem > > unpolished. Do we really need all of what is in the panel on both screens? > > Do > > we need two launchers? Maybe not. Do we need two tasks applets? if it > > shows > > different tasks per screen: yes. Do we need to systrays? Rather no. Do we > > need > > two clock? Could be handy. So maybe different configuration per panel > > makes > > sense? > > One thing I find annoying is the amount of pixels one has to travel with > the mouse just to switch a task. Imagine two 24" screens next to each > other, your taskbar is one the left one and you're dragging the scrollbar > on some window on the right screen. Then you want to switch tasks using > mouse (because your hand is not on keyboard) and you have to travel good > 2500 pixels (around a meter in real length), which involves lots of hand > and eyes movement. Then if the screen opens on the right screen again, you > have to travel all the way back.
That's a setup I have but I never really considered it as a problem. I have two screens and the only panel is on the absolute left as a vertical panel. If I don't want to move that far I normally use one of the screen edges to activate present windows or desktop grid. Cheers Martin
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