Re: [Notion-devel] Multihead expectations

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 12:12:13AM +0200, Javier Rojas wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:27:37PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> > - When WScreen 1 is on monitor A and WScreen 2 is on monitor B, and the
> >   relative locations are changed (monitor A moves from being left of monitor B
> >   to being right of monitor B), what should happen?
> > 
> > The latter is not an obvious choice, I think it would make sense to keep 
> > WScreen 1 on monitor A and WScreen 2 on monitor B. This way it's really just
> > the relative locations that change and not the contents of the windows. As an
> > additional plus, the WScreens don't have to be resized as long as the monitors
> > don't switch resolutions.
> 
> Thw WScreens should be swapped. Otherwise the relative location change
> would go unnoticed by the user (who either caused that change on purpose
> and expects the screens to swap

It would not go unnoticed: the mouse pointer would be moved from monitor A to 
monitor B by moving it off the other edge of monitor A.

I think you change the relative locations of screens when their physical 
relative locations change. In that case it does make sense to keep windows 
that were on physical screen A on physical screen A.

> or got that screen swap unvoluntarily and should be notified), 

Does that ever happen in reality?

> and stuff like mappings to change screen would get its semantics reversed.

I'm not sure what you mean here?


Arnout