GSoC : Multiscreen management

[Will Stephenson]

On Thursday 01 April 2010 21:28:38 Detlev Casanova wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:13:09 Will Stephenson wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 April 2010 16:35:59 Detlev Casanova wrote:
> > > What do you think ?
> > 
> > All great features, but you should look at
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/ScreenManagement
> 
> Well, that's almost exactly what I had in mind :-)
> 
> > http://aike.me/site/blog/20090407/multihead_in_kde_422
> 
> This is more like a bug fixes list. But I see the idea of improving
> multihead management is at least 1 year old.

That was Aike (the previous GSoC student)'s introduction.

> > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/kephal/
> 
> I'll have a look at it, but it seems to be exactly what I wanted to do.

It doesn't _do_ everything it claims to do though.
 
> > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/screenmanagement/
> 
> So you think another plasma widget than the device notifier should be used
> for monitors ? Is the Device Notifier widget only for mass storage devices
> ?

I didn't say anything, just pointing out Aike's prototype UI plasmoid.  I 
think these events should be displayed using Device Notifier.
 
> > This was already the subject of a GSoC project in 2008, which was
> > successful but stopped short of applying policies to restore previous
> > configuration, doing KNotifications or events or providing UI to edit
> > configurations.
> > 
> > KRandR is a separate codebase which Lubos Lunak updated for 4.4 with some
> > SUSE patches to launch an improved version of the KRandR KCM, and does
> > not use Kephal.
> 
> But couldn't KRandR use Kephal eventually ?

Yes.

Will