On 10/24/2013 10:07 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > 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. >
I don't remember what version of kde that started this problem. Please remind me so I can (hopefully) prevent it from being upgraded. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers..for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.Greeley ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
