On Thursday 09 October 2008, Guillaume Pothier wrote: > 2008/10/9 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > how much is the applet required to make kephal useful for plasma? can > > kephal be used as just a notifier of screen layouts, or does it also need > > to manage them? if it can be used as just a notifier (what we have now > > with QDesktopWidget, right?) then perhaps we can start there and add > > control to it later with a nice pretty widget. > > If my understanding is correct, technically kephal can run > independantly of the applet and notify plasma about screen > configuration changes. However, it cannot guess the monitor layout, > ie. monitor 1 above, below, left or right of monitor 2, or if you want > to have an extended desktop or clone the desktop on the other monitor. > So the the applet seems quite indispensable to me.
to _change_ the settings, sure. but we do have krandrtray still in the meantime (though it sucks in its own unhappy ways :) .. > Another topic: kephal remembers the configuration of each monitor, eg. > you plug your external monitor into your notebook and configure it to > be on the left of the internal monitor; later you plug in a projector > and configure it as clone of the internal monitor. Kephal remembers > all that so when you plug back your external monitor, kephal remembers > that this monitor was configured to be on the left (Aike, tell me if > I'm wrong). What happens with plasma in this regard? For instance, I > have one small external monitor at work, and a bigger one at home. I > like to have the plasmoids organized in some way on the big monitor, > and in another way on the small monitor. Would plasma remember the > plasmoid layout for each desktop size? we store the arrangement of panels and resize the views, but we don't mess with the layouts. that seems a bit overkill. if you want different layouts, perhaps use different Activities. > If not, given that kephal > already manage per-monitor-setup configurations, could plasma (and > maybe other apps) store per-monitor-setup configuration data along > with kephal's? what would be the benefit of putting all the configuration data together in this case? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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