On August 18, 2010 11:17:53 Jeremy Whiting wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday, August 17, 2010, Chani wrote: > > > so... we had planned to have a little tool for managing the > > > containments > > > > of > > > > > multiple screens, in 4.5 - but there wasn't time. multiscreen has > > > improvements, but also regressions - well, *a* regression - you can't > > > access the containment of a screen that's not plugged in. the same > > > > applies > > > > > to the per-desktop view stuff (they have a lot in common). > > > > is there a list of use cases that must be serviced? your email has lots > > of "how to do X" in it, but it seems to skip the "why we want to do X". > > The usecase I hit last week was that I usually use two screens, but pulled > one screen off my desktop to use for a separate machine for > longer-than-short-term. Now my main desktop has one screen, with the panel > on it, but there's a separate containment that had some widgets I'd like to > remove or move to this screen. I'm not sure if they are "running" or > whatever, but in the add widgets dialog there are checkboxes on widgets > that are not on this screen or my panel.
unf, that reminds me: there's no easy way to move a widget from one desktop- containment to another in 4.5. you might be able to manage it with keyboard shortcuts or via a panel, though. another issue to be solved someday. > > > > When a screen is disconnected (or in PDV, a desktop removed) the > > > > associated > > > > > containment and view (for each running activity) should be > > > automatically stopped - and resumed again when the screen/desktop > > > returns. We can > > > > migrate > > > > > panels, but not desktops, and it doesn't make sense to leave something > > > running and inaccessible (having to manually stop it would also be > > > > Wrong). > > > > it does make sense to leave something running if one can switch to it, > > though. > > if the switcher UI allows the user to do that, then it's probably fine. > > Umm, is there a glossary somewhere of plasma terms? I've no clue what PDV, > or such mean. ahh, sorry. community.kde.org might have some? PDV (PVD?) is the per-virtual-desktop-views setting. aka "different widgets per virtual desktop" or something. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel