On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:32:14PM -0800, Grant Patterson wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'd like to restart this discussion. We at VMware had some discussions and > have > several ideas for how to specify what the window should cover. Pros and cons > are > my own; you may have more. [...]
I don't have much useful to say to resolve among these options, but I have another idea that seems worth at least throwing out there -- maybe it will lead to a cleaner solution: 6. Instead of creating one giant window and attempting to spread it across multiple screens at once, create one window for each (virtual or real) monitor, and fullscreen each window individually. This has the advantage that it's probably the only version that's even vaguely sane to support in *my* window manager, which treats each monitor as a separate world :-). I doubt that will weigh heavily on everyone else, though. It might make other things easier too, though. For instance, the giant window approach makes it difficult to support different-sized heads, since you end up wanting a non-rectangular window or doing awful things to leave parts of your window blank; this approach supports it naturally. You can have a three monitor setup where the middle monitor is a Linux desktop, and the two side monitors are the two halves of a virtual Windows desktop. -- Nathaniel -- Electrons find their paths in subtle ways. _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
