On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 14:19, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > On Thursday, February 17, 2011, John Layt wrote: >> and panels and plugging/unplugging that I should really find/open bug > > s,open,fix,g ;) > > seriously, the main reason why kicker got as good with multiscreen (not to > mention multiple panels on the same screen) as it did is because i used a 2 > screen desktop for ~2 years, during which time i fixed every issue i spotted. > > it was worth it to me because it affected my daily usage. i used multiple > panels on both screens of a multi-screen set up, my workflow at the time > relied on it, so i put some effort into it. > > opening bug reports does nothing, directly, to make the code better. > > i'm not expecting to have a multiscreen setup again for the foreseeable > future, so it really needs some other people chipping away at the user > experience of panels in multiscreen. your lives will improve, as will many > others who also use multiscreen.
I would very much like to, but I am far too busy with school right now. I hope to make it a priority once I have dev time again. > just think how absurd it is that, once again, most of the current multiscreen > features and fixes in plasma-desktop (including multihead) have been written > by me on a single screen system. "absurd" is the perfect word. i've had some > grateful and dedicated testers, but that's like feeding each other with 10 > foot chopsticks: yes, it's possible, but it's really clumsy and very silly. Possible, yes... it also sounds fun to try. :) Where can I buy 10 foot chopsticks? ...and safety glasses... - Jeffery MacEachern > i know man of you have a million other things to do, but this is an excellent > investment in your day to day experience on your computer. and generally, once > it's Fixed(tm) it doesn't need to be revisited as that code tends not to > change at all once working. > > -- > 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 Development Frameworks > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
