| Summary: | Panel does not span across Xinerama screens in KDE 4.1 | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Aaron Williams <aaronw> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | aseigo, gummay, kde, mboquien |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Image showing kicker from KDE 3.x | ||
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Description
Aaron Williams
2008-08-14 00:17:44 UTC
Kicker has been replaced by the new plasma panel. Created attachment 26852 [details]
Image showing kicker from KDE 3.x
The plasma panel then should support Xinerama, and additionally, height adjustments, to match Kicker from KDE 3.x functionality. The above attachment shows my kicker from light usage. I will often have a lot more in the taskbar. I'm also in this situation, I want the plasma panel to span both monitors like it could in KDE 3.x, but it forces itself to a single monitor. Also, it is resizable (at least in 4.1.2), the functionality is just a bit hidden. Right click on the panel -> "Panel Settings", then the topmost border of the panel is draggable, which adjusts the height of the panel. > to span both monitors like it could in KDE 3.x we're trying to avoid implementing it in the same flaws manner as it was in kde3, namely that it would only work properly on two monitors of the same resolution horizontally arranged. in the meantime, perhaps you could put a panel on each screen instead. i don't know when we'll get multi-screen-panel in plasma, as it's not something a huge % of our users actually use and very few of our devs have multiscreen systems that they hack on on a daily basis. it will require having separate windows on each screen sharing a single containment and coordinating user interaction between them (e.g. unhides, resizes..) > and the settings seem to have been really dumbed down if you mean we aren't putting dozens and dozens of barely thought out options into one big massive sprawling disaster zone of a dialog, yes. (i can say that about the kicker dialog, i wrote it ;) we currently have sizing, alignment, hiding, theming, applet moving ... there are a few things missing in 4.1, they are nearly all in what will be packaged as 4.2. > we're trying to avoid implementing it in the same flaws manner as it was in > kde3, namely that it would only work properly on two monitors of the same > resolution horizontally arranged. Ah, my workstation has two identical horizontally arranged monitors... so I never noticed those limitations. > in the meantime, perhaps you could put a panel on each screen instead. This doesn't really work for me, I normally have very little on my kicker/plasma panel other than the open window list. I tried it, and two separate panels doesn't seem to offer any way of spilling the contents of one into the other. Admittedly, I don't typically use the plasma panel (or kicker) all that often, so a better workaround would involve being able to autohide the plasma panel (is there a bug for that? I can't find it, though bug 158556 seemed close), as then I wouldn't notice the issue 99% of the time. > is there a bug for that?
it's already implemented for 4.2; some distros have backported the feature to their 4.1.2 packages.
Seems like this is still an issue in KDE 4.2, although it's far less annoying since I can just autohide the panel now. This bug is a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167825 - please go there and vote :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167825 *** |