Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-02-18 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Anyway, no need to say that if there is new feature to play fullscreen movies on several monitors, user should have the choice to enable or disable this feature (I don't think all xinerama users want to watch their movie across all their monitors ;-)) yes the script would have to be

Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Alex Fiestas
The only reason I can think of is to create video walls, meaning multiple monitors used as if they were 1. Not sure if that can be done lower in the stack using xrandr for example. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org

Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Martin, On Friday, January 20, 2012 11:32:13 Martin Gräßlin wrote: KWin provides the option to turn off multi screen aware window management. This results in windows being maximized over both screens or fullscreen windows being stretched over all screens. These options make the code much

Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, January 20, 2012 11:53:22 Alex Fiestas wrote: The only reason I can think of is to create video walls, meaning multiple monitors used as if they were 1. Not sure if that can be done lower in the stack using xrandr for example. Just disabling Xinerama would be enough to achieve

Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Friday, January 20, 2012 12:37:12 PM Sebastian Kügler wrote: Just disabling Xinerama would be enough to achieve that. Thought xinerama was something deprecated and that should not be used :/ I don't know where xinerama is exactly, is it at the same level of XRandR ? one below? one above?

Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 20 January 2012 11:53:22 Alex Fiestas wrote: The only reason I can think of is to create video walls, meaning multiple monitors used as if they were 1. for that you do not even need these options. You can resize your window as big as you want. Quite independent from the options.

Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Alex Fiestas
On Friday, January 20, 2012 11:32:13 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote: From the userinterface the only useful option is Show unmanaged windows on which should be kept. Well imho as a heavy multi* everything user I don't see why a user would want to force Unmanaged windows in one screen since usually

Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 20 January 2012 13:09:18 Xavier IZARD wrote: Martin Gräßlin a écrit : Hi workspace developers, KWin provides the option to turn off multi screen aware window management. This results in windows being maximized over both screens or fullscreen windows being stretched over all

Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 20 January 2012 13:11:03 Alex Fiestas wrote: On Friday, January 20, 2012 11:32:13 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote: From the userinterface the only useful option is Show unmanaged windows on which should be kept. Well imho as a heavy multi* everything user I don't see why a user would

Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Alex Fiestas afies...@kde.org wrote: The only reason I can think of is to create video walls, meaning multiple monitors used as if they were 1. Not sure if that can be done lower in the stack using xrandr for example. But is that something that should be in

Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 20 January 2012 14:13:17 XI wrote: so you would only need one of the options, the fullscreen one? And in fact you only want that for vlc, right? You don't want the option for let's say Firefox? So e.g. a KWin script taking care of setting the fullscreen video player to all

Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 20.01.2012, 13:31 Uhr, schrieb Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org: On Friday 20 January 2012 13:11:03 Alex Fiestas wrote: On Friday, January 20, 2012 11:32:13 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote: From the userinterface the only useful option is Show unmanaged windows on which should be kept.

Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 20.01.2012, 17:11 Uhr, schrieb Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org: So basically i guess this option is dead (unless it's read somewhere else and exported to the root window - but i don't know. My root window looks unspectacular in this regard) lxr will help for that :-) a) cool - wasn't

Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Shaun Reich
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Thomas Lübking thomas.luebk...@gmail.com wrote: a) cool - wasn't aware that there's lxr.kde.org (just typed that into the browser just after reading ;-) b) how? - afaik lxr only handles definitions, not use random strings in some function and while 'Unmanaged'

Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Hans Chen
While we're talking about confusing options in System Settings, I've always wondered why there are two Xinerama options in Window Behavior (Focus tab) - Separate screen focus and Active screen follows mouse. In particular, how does the latter work together with Show unmanaged windows on? Thought

Re: Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 20 January 2012 20:04:12 Hans Chen wrote: While we're talking about confusing options in System Settings, I've always wondered why there are two Xinerama options in Window Behavior (Focus tab) - Separate screen focus and Active screen follows mouse. In particular, how does the latter

Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 20.01.2012, 19:08 Uhr, schrieb Shaun Reich shaun.re...@kdemail.net: lxr has both C++ understanding (which is that default textbox you see, Thanks a lot. It's the KGlobalSettings::splashScreenDesktopGeometry() in kdeglobals.cpp what sounds like legacy code(*) since nowadays splashscreens