| Summary: | KScreen allows to overlap screens | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | postix <postix> |
| Component: | kcm_kscreen | Assignee: | kscreen-bugs-null <kscreen-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | lemmyg, nate, plasma-bugs-null, postix |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 5.25.90 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Screenshot for illustration, showing a partial overlap | ||
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Description
postix
2022-09-24 10:23:49 UTC
When you say "stack", do you mean: 1. 100% cover one screen with another 2. any overlap between screens? (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > When you say "stack", do you mean: > 1. 100% cover one screen with another > 2. any overlap between screens? Yes, this describes it perfectly. Created attachment 152440 [details]
Screenshot for illustration, showing a partial overlap
So you're saying that you think even partial overlaps don't make sense? When if your physical screen arrangement involves some overlap? This would probably never happen with desktop monitors, but if you have a laptop connected to a desktop monitor, it's not inconceivable that the laptop screen would overlap part of the corner of the desktop screen. Indeed, I find myself in this situation rather frequently. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #4) > So you're saying that you think even partial overlaps don't make sense? Fortunately I was always able to avoid it, also since it's not implemented in Gnome (42), on Windows 10 or MacOS. However, I just gave it a try on Plasma 5.25.5 Wayland and plugged in a FullHD 24" screen into my 14" laptop with 2560x1440@150% and positioned both so that a smaller corner of the external display was covered by the laptop's screen. Obviously I ran into scaling issues, as I'd need a factor of 1 1/3 to make both scale equally and the UX is not the best, since by design screen space is shared. Nonetheless, I can see your point now. ;-) So, maybe we should close this report and I only open one to improve the case, where one cannot see directly that one screen fully covers a second one in the KCM? Yes, I agree that letting screens fully overlap makes no sense. Even letting them overlap 50% doesn't really make sense either. That's not a sensible physical layout. Really I can only think of a use case for like a 25% overlap at most, to cover the case of a laptop sitting on a desk that partially covers the corner of an external screen. Any more overlap than that, and any sane person would move the external screen a few centimeters away! So I think requesting that could make sense too. |