Release schedule clarifications

[Matthew Woehlke]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> So I can't have it expand over both screens? :( I like that feature in
>> kicker very much.
> 
> no, the concept is broken in many ways. for one, if you have two monitors with 
> different resolutions, then at which coordinates do you position the panel 
> exactly? when doing things like "show only windows on current screen" in a 
> taskbar where the taskbar is split between screens, what do you do?

When a window is visible on both screens, what panel do you show it on 
for this option? Both?

> what about odd scenarios where the monitors are not left-right but
> top-bottom?

...then top/bottom panel does not make much sense, true... but 
left/right panel would.

> multi-screen panels work in pretty much exactly one configuration: panel at 
> the top or bottom with 2 or more monitors with the same resolution in a 
> left-to-right configuration. they break in every pretty much every other 
> case.

I would guess this is a good chunk of users, though. I can surely live 
with it for now (I don't have multi-screen panel), but I'm unconvinced 
this feature should never be brought back.

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Matthew
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