[KDE Usability] Re: Display Management Design

[todd rme]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Alex Fiestas <afiestas at kde.org> wrote:
> On 07/27/2011 12:16 AM, Lukas wrote:
>> https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1A7bdmsLBE_oeRZPHxZNMBVAxMQZCkQIclWOrd2mRLGs/edit?hl=en_US
>>
>> Done. Just try to play around with it, if you what.  Quick version with
>> activities integration :)
>
> Now that I think about it... I fail to see what Activity integration can
> bring to the table, the configuration is mainly related to the
> monitor(s) you have connected, so once we detect the monitors we can
> apply the saved configuration.
>
> So I'm wondering, do we really want to be able to set a different
> configuration for the same set of monitors depending on which activity
> we are? I can think on corner cases but those should not be our primary
> target.
>
> For the rest of the mockup (I've read all the thread) I'm loving the
> result :)! thanks for it!

I was thinking it would be the other way around, when you switch to a
particular monitor layout it can optionally be set to also switch to a
particular activity.  I definitely think that would be helpful.  My
suggestions have been based on that assumption, but I might have been
misunderstanding.

-Todd