Re: [E-devel] E17 - Virtual Desktop Settings - Independent Control Needed for Wrap Desktops (horizontal & vertical)

[Viktor K. <vko...@gm...>]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 14:25 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: 
> Guys,
> 
> 	Currently you have the ability to either wrap the virtual desktops in both 
> the horizontal and vertical directions, --or-- your only other option is to 
> turn wrap off which causes loss of, and all benefits provided by wrapping. On 
> my 2 desktop 4 screen area setup (2 high x 4 wide), I want wrap on the left 
> and right screen edges. but I don't want to wrap up on the top edge of desktop 
> 1 or on the bottom edge of desktop 2. I simply want to be able to switch from 
> desktop 1 --> desktop 2 by going down with the mouse, and I want to be able to 
> switch from desktop 2 --> desktop 1 by going up with the mouse, but not have 
> the vertical wrap frop the top of desktop 1 to the bottom of desktop 2 by ging 
> up or wrap from the bottom of desktop 2 to the top of desktop 1.
> 
> 	In other words I was the ability to wrap horizontally, but the ability to 
> turn off the wrap in the vertical direction. 
> 
> 	In the Virtual Desktop Seeting dialog, the user should be able to 
> independently choose whether to wrap in the vertical direction. the horizontal 
> direction, or wrap in both directions. Then the user could constrain the mouse 
> to NOT wrap UP from the top area and not wrap down below the bottom desktop, 
> while maintaining the ability to wrap left<-->right from desktop area 1 --> 4 
> or 4 --> 1, respectively.
> 
> 	I don't know how difficult it would be to split the 'wrap on/off' into 'wrap 
> horizontal on/off' and 'wrap vertical on/off', but just thinking through it , 
> it seems like something that sould be fairly easy. Please give it some 
> thought. That would add flexibility and user control while eliminating some of 
> the problems of using auto-hide on the shelfs at the bottom of the screen 
> (where you attempt to look at (unhide) your itask or ibar and end up wrapping 
> down to the next desktop.
> 
> 	Thank you for all your hard work :-)
> 
> 
this should already be possible if you go to the edge bindings dialog
and delete the wrap bindings for the top and bottom edges