[digiKam-users] DK layout

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

No problem under Plasma desktop.

Album view is open on the right side monitor, editor on the left one. 2
separate main windows. Same for LT, BQM, or Import tool. This work like
this since a while (before 1.0.0 if i remember).

There is nothing special to do in digiKam or plasma. all is managed in top
level automatically by the windows manager provided by the desktop.

This is true for the native digiKam or the AppImage bundle.

This is true for CentOs, that i use sometime.

This is true for a Linux running into Virtualbox with more than one screens
enabled.

I never use Ubuntu, and especially Unity. This desktop manager is full of
bugs or try to re-invent the wheel. It just a wast of time

As Ubuntu switch back to Gnome, i'm happy to have never spare my precious
time to hack DK with this desktop.

In fact, when i want to hack, Mageia propose all the desktop at login time,
and i run digiKam as well to see if dysfunctions appear.

I never use Kubuntu too. Each time that i try, the system become unstable
quickly. I need to work, not to pass my precious time to hack this kind of
stuff... Even if i already seen some dysfunction in Mageia, DK has always
work perfectly in this Linux Box.

I know that recent Qt5.10 or 5.11 has dysfunctions with current desktop.
These Qt version are not LTS and all distribution which use it by default
will introduce problems in user space, with complex applications as
digiKam. I'm not surprised, as i follow all main qt devel blogs, and i see
the list of features blow up at each releases. Under Mageia, the clever
choice was to select Qt5.9.x LTS, and all work fine until now. This is also
my choice to build AppImage bundle.

Gilles Caulier

2018-07-29 13:59 GMT+02:00 Pioter Gmoter <piotergmoter at hotmail.com>:

> Byt the way Gilles, are not you touched by dual (or more) monitor problems
> under KDE?
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356225
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210439
>
> kubuntu 16.04 with two monitors setup is unusable, and from what I have
> understood it is qt linux implementation fault, not kde, that is kde
> developers explanation.
>
> P.
>
>
>
> W dniu 27.07.2018 o 21:27, Gilles Caulier pisze:
>
> Hi,
>
> yes, here with Plasma desktop, i use both 27' WQHD monitor. One for
> thumbnails view, one for Image editor or Light Table. This is why
> explicitly, all main view are separated from thumbnails view.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2018-07-27 20:50 GMT+02:00 <digikam at 911networks.com>:
>
>> DK 5.9.0 appimage
>>
>> I have an XFCE with 2x24" monitors.
>>
>> Is there some way of utilizing both monitor at the same time, for
>> example the panels on 1 monitor and the thumbnails or the previews in
>> the other one?
>>
>> Or...
>>
>> --
>> sknahT
>>
>> vyS
>>
>
>
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