Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1898 mails)

[Bob Ewart <bob-ewart@xxxxxxx>]

On 07/23/2010 08:59 PM, Bob Ewart wrote:
> KDE4's paradigm for multiple monitors differs greatly from mine (and
> KDE3's.)
>
> I'm used to one big desktop spread across 2 monitors.
>
> KDE4 can move a window seamlessly across the two monitors, but that is
> where it stops.
>
> In everything else it treats the two displays as two separate things.
>
> It won't span a background picture across the displays.
>
> It won't span a panel across two displays.
>
> You can't move an icon from one display to another. I like to have icons
> for frequently used programs in the periphery of my desktop so I can
> start them with a single click.  The only way I've found to put them on
> the desktop is to put them into the application launcher menu and send
> them to the desktop via right click.  That means an application launcher
> has to be in a panel on each screen in order to put the icon on the
> appropriate screen.

Well I guess I should have looked at the KDE web site.  Setting the
desktop activity to 'Folder View' solves most of the icon problem.



> IMHO KDE 4.4 needed to move to qt4, but they've spent a lot of time on
> glitz.  It still has a long way to go to be as functional as 3.5


-- 
Bob

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