Status of multi-monitor support

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 09 October 2008, Guillaume Pothier wrote:
> 2008/10/9 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> > we store the arrangement of panels and resize the views, but we don't
> > mess with the layouts. that seems a bit overkill. if you want different
> > layouts, perhaps use different Activities.
>
> Maybe there could be an automatic switching of activities based on
> current monitor config?

not without user intervention; which means more configuration UI to wade 
through .. is there really a serious use case for this?

> > what would be the benefit of putting all the configuration data together
> > in this case?
>
> Just to avoid having to maintain another mapping of <monitors config
> -> config data>, as kephal already has such a mapping.

we already map the screen # and screen size.

unless there's a common use case where massive rearrangement of the monitors 
is a commonplace action, i don't see the need to change the current code or 
make it more complex than it already is.

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