OBSERVED RESULT Displays listed in Panels and Desktops Management window are not in the same order as Display Configuration EXPECTED RESULT Displays are listed in the same order
This gets asked for a lot, but itt's not easily possible because right now it's just a flat list. But your screen arrangement is *not* a flat list; it's a 2-dimensional drawing canvas, where screens can be placed in arbitrary X/Y locations. To do this, we would need to implement the same 2-dimension UI from KScreen. But then the problem becomes something different: this is really meant as a troubleshooting UI to help you recover lost panels and containments. Which physical screen does a lost containment or a lost panel map to? None. So we would need to have the KScreen UI to show the
Accidentally hit Ctrl+Return. So we would need to have the KScreen UI to show the screen arrangement and the containments+panels bound to each actual screen, as well as a separate "unused containments" view that could show all inactive containments in a flat list. That actually sounds pretty cool.
While I understand Nate's concern, it should be trivial to create a list of screens from left to right (or the otherway if you are in RTL mode) by just enumerating the displays and sorting them by the X coordinates. It wouldn't be the cool solution, but (IMHO) its easy and should solve the problem for most people.
That would be a reasonable 80% solution, but it would also miss cases like vertically-arranged screens. Anytime you have some sort of visual depiction of screens, I think people are always going to expect it to match the real arrangement exactly, not approximately.