Re: Panel behaviour under Xinerama

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Bill Haneman">

> It's simple:
> With xinerama a maximize should maximize across the multi-screen area
> (because by definition it's only ONE screen).  If the user doesn't want
> that, then the user does not want xinerama, s/he wants multi-head.

That's not true. Xinerama has a very large usability advantage over
multihead in that you can drag windows between screens, it doesn't matter
where you start apps, and the entire thing feels like one coherent screen
(with a gap down the middle, so you also want them to grok that they are at
least a little bit separate).

Multi-head requires you to understand that there are two different,
independent displays, no matter how nice our GTK+ migration stuff is.

Xinerama is a hack to make stuff nicer and is very appropriate for "normal
people", multi-head is a more optimal solution that is a great choice for a
technical user who understands how it operates.

- Jeff

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