Display Configuration KCM design review

[Christoph Feck]

On Thursday 04 October 2012 15:41:56 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2012 2:02 PM, "Aurélien Gâteau" <agateau at kde.org> wrote:
> > > There could be an "Advanced" mode,
> > > where you can set pixel positions, refresh rates, etc.
> > 
> > I don't think you need an advanced mode: in the proposed UI it
> > should be doable to implement adjusting the position with the
> > arrow keys. This does
> 
> not
> 
> > conflict with the way one can quickly rearrange screens with the
> > mouse.
> 
> Wouldn't snapping do a better job then? And not only for vertical
> alignment, but also the horizontal for the case when you have one
> screen above the other.

Check the video, snapping is already implemented. But this only helps 
if you can assume the displays are also physically aligned, that's why 
it is possible to move them freely.

Hm, thinking about it, maybe it should be possible to move them freely 
in one direction, but keeping them glued together in the orthogonal 
direction. So you could freely move one of two screens placed side by 
side up and down, without introducing a gap or an overlap. I think 
this was the reason why someone else wanted to use the keyboard to 
move them.

Christoph Feck (kdepepo)