Panel behaviour under Xinerama

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,
	See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111712[1] - basically the
problem is that ever since the panel has had Xinerama support it only
spans a single (physical) screen on Xinerama rather than the entire
logical screen.

	That makes sense to me for two reasons:

	1) I'd imagine that most people use each monitor for different purposes
- e.g. you might typically do all you hacking on one monitor and have
email/irc open on the other monitor. It seems obvious then that you may
want (e.g.) a top and bottom panel on one monitor and only a top panel
on another monitor.

	2) Its possible to configure Xinerama with monitors of different
resolutions and therefore the logical screen isn't completely
rectangular. If the panel spans the entire screen then you may "lose"
part of a panel on some configurations.

	I've never used Xinerama for more than a few seconds (nor has George
AFAIK who did the Xinerama work in the first place) so I'd prefer to get
some input from people who actually do use it on a day to day basis.

	Thoughts ?

Cheers,
Mark.

[1] - yes, yes the bug itself is little more than a rant ...