[RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Friday 20 January 2012 16:52:00 Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=FCbking?= wrote:
> Am 20.01.2012, 13:31 Uhr, schrieb Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>:
> > On Friday 20 January 2012 13:11:03 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> >> On Friday, January 20, 2012 11:32:13 AM Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> >> > From the userinterface the only useful option is "Show unmanaged
> >> 
> >> windows
> >> 
> >> > on" which should be kept.
> 
> Errrheemmm ...  hehe .... uummmm....
> 
> It writes "Unmanaged" to [Windows] in kdeglobals from where it is at least
> not read by KWin (which would not place unmanaged windows anyway)
> KWin reads XineramaPlacementScreen and ("somehow") uses it to place
> *managed* windows.
I always considered the option to be for "windows not yet managed" => 
"unmanaged".
> I however don't know where a GUI config for this would reside and there's
> no such entry in my entire ~/.kde/share/config dir - which contains
> veeeery old files...
Hmm that would explain why I had the feeling for quite some time that the 
option is not working.
> 
> So basically i guess this option is dead (unless it's read somewhere else
> and exported to the root window - but i don't know. My root window looks
> unspectacular in this regard)
lxr will help for that :-)
> 
> On general topic, i'm pretty much with Sebastian - "Make one HUGE screen"
> ./. "Make many Screens" should be entirely sufficient*, having different
> placement, maximization and resistance behavior sounds weird and otherwise
> the kcm looks like it crosses krandr.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas
> 
> *not sure whether this would lower code complexity, though...
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