All hail the new KScreen king

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hey,

First of all: Thanks a lot, Dan, for your KScreen maintainership. I'll have 
big shoes to fill.

On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 04:31:45 PM Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> since I no longer have that much time to work on KDE, I decide to cut back
> on the number of projects I am involved in. KScreen is an important part of
> Plasma nowadays and the fact that it sucks and I don't have time and will
> to fix it impacts the whole Plasma product, so I decided to hand it to
> someone more competent.
> 
> Sebas agreed to take over KScreen and take care of it. Thank you Sebas! He
> knows the code already as he is working on the Wayland backend and has some
> cool plans for KScreen in the future, so there's certainly something to look
> forward to.

Yes, plans. On my list for the future direction:

- Wayland support (more or less done in libkscreen, currently working on the 
  KWin bits
- Kill libkscreen usage in plasmashell (Aleix has a patch, but it needs Qt 
  5.6, so until we can depend on that, we have to wait), in general, 
  libkscreen should not be used for just reading the screen configuration, for 
  that, there's QScreen
- Fix X11 multihead -- I see lots of grief from users, may have to look into 
  it more closely.

Help with all that is most welcome. I'm not going to run the show alone, but I 
agreed to coordinate the work on it.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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