Re: multihead desktop

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 19 Dec 2002, James Willcox wrote:

> Hello nautilus dudes,
> 
> I've a patch here that changes the multihead behavior of nautilus. 
> Currently, nautilus (poorly) displays the same desktop icons on every
> screen.  This patch makes the desktop icons screen-specific.  That is,
> each icon will only show up on one screen.  You can drag the icons
> between screens, create new folders on a given screen, etc.  The patch
> is a bit hacky (esp. the dnd stuff), but it seems to work pretty well,
> and I think it's much more usable this way.  It might be a bit late to
> get this into 2.2, but what do y'all think of it?

I like it a lot. Without it current multihead is basically broken, if you 
change a file in one desktop the others won't be updated at all. Of 
course, I don't have a multihead setup, so I don't care about it not being 
useable. :)

The question is, do we consider this a bugfix or a feature addition? 
Personally I lean towards considering it a bugfix, but maybe we should ask 
the release team what they think.

(I did a quick review of the patch, and it seems ok to me. If it goes in I 
need to take a closer look though.)

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