On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:37:41PM +0000, Duncan wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:34:58 +0200 as excerpted: > > > See how tastes differ. *I* found this a bad idea and it was among the > > things I always disable right after installation, because I wanted the > > window's [X] to be in the corner where it belongs so I can quickly reach > > it by mouse. It's the same reason for which I can't understand why > > people use top panels. But that's the user world -- to each his own, and > > the dev's can't accommodate everyone. The fact that they don't include > > (or, as you say, even remove) the option is sadly another story. > > Just noting the multi-monitor case, with monitors logically stacked and > kwin set to maximize to a single monitor. That's actually the case here, > with the further condition that altho three monitors are logically > stacked, only the bottom two are actually physically stacked due to space > constraints (they're actually 42-inch TVs that stack to cover an entire > wall, with the third logically stacked on top to preserve the logical > rectangular desktop, but physically off to the side where I have room for > it). > > In that case, a top panel covering essentially all of the top monitor, > my "system status dashboard", graphing user/system/nice/wait CPU usage > separately for six cores, app/buffer/cache memory, various system temps, > voltage and power usage, and fan speeds, network usage, and listing top > applications by memory and cpu usage, etc, along with last 20 or so syslog > entries, all in a custom superkaramba theme, makes sense, particularly > since that monitor is physically separated from the others even if it's > logically stacked on top of them.
you godda admit, that’s an “exotic” setup. Anyways, I was more referring to the “typical“ single-monitor, single-desktop use case. Not having seriously worked with a multimonitor setup yet, I excluded that from my thought process. :o) Think for example *cough* Apple laptops or, heck, Gnome (not just 3 but also the default config in 2 and also in xfce4). > ... [...] Instead, I don't care much about the defaults; I just want > to have the configurability to sanely setup a configuration I'm > comfortable with. > > And kde is renowned for that sort of flexible configurability, a big part > of why I use it, for much the same "big part of" reason that I use both > Gentoo and Linux in general -- the configurability. Too bad in this case > kde had it, but removed it! =:^( Indeed. PS.: If you use KWin's align window function (which I set to Meta + left/right, inspired by Windows) to put a window either on one half or quarter of a screen, then the borders are not chopped. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any Facebook service. “I’m working on than.” -- Stephen Hawking (When visiting the set of the Starship Enterprise’s engine room)
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