On Thursday 01 April 2010 21:28:38 Detlev Casanova wrote: > On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:13:09 Will Stephenson wrote: > > On Thursday 01 April 2010 16:35:59 Detlev Casanova wrote: > > > What do you think ? > > > > All great features, but you should look at > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/ScreenManagement > > Well, that's almost exactly what I had in mind :-) > > > http://aike.me/site/blog/20090407/multihead_in_kde_422 > > This is more like a bug fixes list. But I see the idea of improving > multihead management is at least 1 year old.
That was Aike (the previous GSoC student)'s introduction. > > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/kephal/ > > I'll have a look at it, but it seems to be exactly what I wanted to do. It doesn't _do_ everything it claims to do though. > > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/screenmanagement/ > > So you think another plasma widget than the device notifier should be used > for monitors ? Is the Device Notifier widget only for mass storage devices > ? I didn't say anything, just pointing out Aike's prototype UI plasmoid. I think these events should be displayed using Device Notifier. > > This was already the subject of a GSoC project in 2008, which was > > successful but stopped short of applying policies to restore previous > > configuration, doing KNotifications or events or providing UI to edit > > configurations. > > > > KRandR is a separate codebase which Lubos Lunak updated for 4.4 with some > > SUSE patches to launch an improved version of the KRandR KCM, and does > > not use Kephal. > > But couldn't KRandR use Kephal eventually ? Yes. Will _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel