multi-screen fixathon

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 10 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote:
> OK, let's start with the most simple case.*
>
> Output: *See attached file
>
>
>    1. Plasma starts up with *activity A* on *left screen* and *activity
> B*on *right* (main) *screen*.
>    2. Zoom out on *left screen.* (Notice: the activities are shown as
>    [B][A], and not [A][B] as one would expect.)
>    3. Chose *activity B* to zoom in on *left screen*.

did set up a really precary twinview, and i can quite reproduce a problem like 
that, the problem seems when you try to select the same activity in two views, 
a thing that can likely break :p
so what should be done? perhaps when a view loses its containment it should 
iterate all containments and use the first "free" it finds? (done at 
DesktopView level i think)

> Now you have the same activity (*B*) on both screens. At this point the
> Plasma feels broken: changing activity on one screen doesn't work and and
> some cashews disappear when I try to add activities and zoom in/out. Do you
> want plasma output beyond this point too?
>
> 2008/12/10 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>
>
> > On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote:
> > > Hi Michael,
> > >
> > > It's perfectly OK me.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > *Aaron*: I've played around a bit and found that it works pretty good
> > > in trunk - except when I set the same activity to both screens.
> >
> > ah, that shouldn't be possible. it *should* result in the activities
> > trading with each other.
> >
> > > Afterwards I
> > > get the same issue as I described before (at the moment I can't change
> > > activity on either screen through the ZUI).
> >
> > yes, that would be expected if both screens have the same activity
> >
> > > Do you want some plasma outputs? Should I describe exactly what I do,
> > > or
> >
> > is
> >
> > > a log sufficient?
> >
> > both please. =)
> >
> >
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