Review Request 118094: Sort screens in plasma from left to right

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On May 12, 2014, 1:04 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > That's not correct. Primary, at least, needs to have special treatment and get the 0-named containment assigned always, which is what the current naming is about.
> > 
> > As for the rest of the screens it's probably best to sort them rather than keeping them as they come like now. Furthermore, you'll want also to insert the new screens in the correct position then, and shift the rest of the screens.
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> Martin Klapetek wrote:
>     > That's not correct. Primary, at least, needs to have special treatment and get the 0-named containment assigned always, which is what the current naming is about.
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>     Why?
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>     > As for the rest of the screens it's probably best to sort them rather than keeping them as they come like now.
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>     They are sorted from left to right...or what sorting you have in mind?
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>     > Furthermore, you'll want also to insert the new screens in the correct position then, and shift the rest of the screens.
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>     Yes.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Because if the user has set up his first containment with all panels, we expect him to have it in the screen he explicitly said it's the primary one.
>     This way he'll be able to put the most attention to the screen he selected and get the notifications, the task manager and whatnot. Assuming all this goes to the left-most screen and disregarding the primary setting is not acceptable, considering the current design.

does that need to be 0-based for that? It sounds like two orthogonal things. One is to have a sane ordering by going e.g. left to right, the other is honoring the primary screen for placing the main containment.


- Martin


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On May 12, 2014, 12:39 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
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> (Updated May 12, 2014, 12:39 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Aleix Pol Gonzalez and Martin Gräßlin.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> Even though numbered outputs have their flaws, we still use them pretty much everywhere and everywhere we use outputs numbered from left to right, so let's use the same in Plasma.
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> This seems to fix most of my multiscreen issues now, namely bug 334500 and bug 334502.
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> Also:
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> <mgraesslin> I don't know - having primary as 0 is a bit strange
> <mgraesslin> 1, 2, 3, 0
> <mgraesslin> ?
> <mgraesslin> that was from left to right
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> Diffs
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>   shell/shellcorona.cpp b0b139d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118094/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Klapetek
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