Screen Edge handling in 4.11

[Martin Graesslin]

On Monday 21 January 2013 13:48:22 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 13:10:36 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > >  * which edge to monitor (left/right/top/bottom)
> > > >  * offset on edge
> > > >  * length on edge
> > > 
> > > screen #?
> > 
> > very unsure as we need to have a consistent screen numbering and I don't
> > think that exists.
> 
> don't we have the screen id's as used in QDesktopWidget and friends?
yes, but where does QDesktopWidget get it from? Is it the XRandR id or some 
internal numbering? The documentation does not state anything and if we want 
to go for a fdo approach we cannot use an id which is Qt internal ;-)
> > would that work with e.g. KRunner registering the top-center area of each
> > screen?
> 
> it just means 1 screen edge trigger object per screen, all connected to the
> same slot in krunner. so this is absolutely fine
good :-)
> 
> > * code of this in SNI
> 
> kde-workspace/statusnotifierwatcher
> 
> > * SNI spec?
> 
> http://www.notmart.org/misc/statusnotifieritem/index.html
what an interesting place to keep specifications (even if FDO is unlikely: 
maybe somewhere on .kde.org?)

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Martin Gräßlin