Re: multihead desktop

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> We need to be sure that old nautilus (2.0) still works with any new
> metadata changes/additions. i.e. you may share ~/.gnome-desktop
> between 2.0 and 2.2. It's important to keep that working.

That should be safe, with 2.0 it just won't read the screen metadata, and 
everything will be fine (but single-headed).
 
> Also, doesn't this patch paper over but not really fix the fact that
> nautilus doesn't seem to monitor filesystem changes on the desktop -
> e.g. if I create a new launcher, it won't appear on the other screens.

What do you mean? Without this patch (and with a working fam) it would 
appear on all screens, but with the patch it appears only on screen 0. 

The problem with the old behaviour is that there is only ever one position
stored for each icon, but the icon positions are not uptated between 
the desktops (if an icon moves on one it doesn't update on the others). 
This causes some strange behaviour. (Plus its useless to have the desktop 
be replicated on all heads.)

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