Re: multihead desktop

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 13:08, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Alexander Larsson">
>
> > 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.)
>
> Okay, say I:
>
>   - Usually use GNOME 2.2 on my high-powered multihead workstation, and tidy
>     up my files across 'both' Nautilus desktops. (Nautilus adds screen info
>     to the xml files.)
>
>   - Have to log in to one of the crappy single-head GNOME 2.0 machines that
>     we handed down to the sales department on day. Do all of my files appear
>     on the one desktop, overlayed at the positions they would have been on
>     both screens? (If 2.0 ignores the screen info, I'd assume it would do
>     this.)
>
>   - When I move back to my happy workstation, after not changing anything,
>     will the metadata be otherwise harmed?
>
>   - If I moved some files around on the 2.0 desktop, and go back to my happy
>     workstation, will they still have their screen info (does 2.0 keep any
>     unknown metadata?) or will the changed files all appear on screen 0 by
>     default (because their screen info has been killed) or will *all* of the
>     files appear on screen 0 now, because all their screen info has been
>     killed?
I just logged into the rh8 desktop to test this (with a single head) and moved some of the files around.  Upon coming back to 2.2, they appeared on the correct screen with the new position.

Thanks,
James