| Summary: | Screen Layout quick options don't work with >2 screens, and no visual indication that they don't work | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] KScreen | Reporter: | tamodolo |
| Component: | OSD and Plasma applet | Assignee: | kscreen-bugs-null <kscreen-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | fanzhuyifan, nate, xaver.hugl |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.1.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
tamodolo
2024-08-18 12:22:43 UTC
Quick options only support simple default configurations with two screens. For more complicated setup you should use the display configuration in settings. (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #1) > Quick options only support simple default configurations with two screens. > For more complicated setup you should use the display configuration in > settings. No. This is definitely a bug as it is expected that these options do something when used. As you click it and nothing happens then the obvious conclusion is that it's broken even if that this is the intended behavior for now. As it is now this feature breaks when user connect more than 2 monitors. (In reply to tamodolo from comment #2) > (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #1) > > Quick options only support simple default configurations with two screens. > > For more complicated setup you should use the display configuration in > > settings. > > No. This is definitely a bug as it is expected that these options do > something when used. As you click it and nothing happens then the obvious > conclusion is that it's broken even if that this is the intended behavior > for now. As it is now this feature breaks when user connect more than 2 > monitors. Makes sense. IMO we should probably disable these quick options when there are more than 2 monitors. (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #3) > (In reply to tamodolo from comment #2) > > (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #1) > > > Quick options only support simple default configurations with two screens. > > > For more complicated setup you should use the display configuration in > > > settings. > > > > No. This is definitely a bug as it is expected that these options do > > something when used. As you click it and nothing happens then the obvious > > conclusion is that it's broken even if that this is the intended behavior > > for now. As it is now this feature breaks when user connect more than 2 > > monitors. > > Makes sense. IMO we should probably disable these quick options when there > are more than 2 monitors. I don't think this would be hard to fix for multiple monitor just by making options to edit this shortcut inside display manager by remembering the user desired setting and let users atach to the shortcut. I don't know how to implement that but I did a lot of VBA in my life so I see this problem as fast to solve as remembering a buton and runing a comand to change display would be simple instead of expecting the user to make a .sh to workaround that. (In reply to tamodolo from comment #4) > I don't think this would be hard to fix for multiple monitor just by making > options to edit this shortcut inside display manager by remembering the user > desired setting and let users atach to the shortcut. > > I don't know how to implement that but I did a lot of VBA in my life so I > see this problem as fast to solve as remembering a buton and runing a comand > to change display would be simple instead of expecting the user to make a > .sh to workaround that. That sounds like a feature request about adding the ability to use custom layouts to the quick options panel. Would you like to make this report about that? (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #5) > (In reply to tamodolo from comment #4) > > I don't think this would be hard to fix for multiple monitor just by making > > options to edit this shortcut inside display manager by remembering the user > > desired setting and let users atach to the shortcut. > > > > I don't know how to implement that but I did a lot of VBA in my life so I > > see this problem as fast to solve as remembering a buton and runing a comand > > to change display would be simple instead of expecting the user to make a > > .sh to workaround that. > > That sounds like a feature request about adding the ability to use custom > layouts to the quick options panel. Would you like to make this report about > that? The way I sugested may be considered a feature request but my sugestion isn't the only solution as there are people more clever than me in KDE team that could think a different and better solution to fixing this feature and making it work for any number of monitors. This ticket isn't about my sugestion but the problem as a whole. Probably the way to deal with my sugestion is by opening an independent feature request while leaving this issue open as my sugestion is an incomplete solution. (In reply to tamodolo from comment #6) > Probably the way to deal with my sugestion is by opening an independent > feature request while leaving this issue open as my sugestion is an > incomplete solution. Could you open a separate report then? Thanks. (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #7) > (In reply to tamodolo from comment #6) > > Probably the way to deal with my sugestion is by opening an independent > > feature request while leaving this issue open as my sugestion is an > > incomplete solution. > > Could you open a separate report then? Thanks. How's the proper way to do this? I searched for a while but here I can only open bugs. Should I open here with a [Feature Request] in the begining? (In reply to tamodolo from comment #8) > (In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #7) > > (In reply to tamodolo from comment #6) > > > Probably the way to deal with my sugestion is by opening an independent > > > feature request while leaving this issue open as my sugestion is an > > > incomplete solution. > > > > Could you open a separate report then? Thanks. > > How's the proper way to do this? I searched for a while but here I can only > open bugs. Should I open here with a [Feature Request] in the begining? The interface is the same as for the bug reports. Yeah just put something like [feature request] in the title, and set severity to wishlist. Feature request related to this issue is open. Thanks for all the help in opening this right. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=491900 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 421032 *** |