Re: [RFC] _NET_WORKAREA and Xinerama

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Havoc,

On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 17:11, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:27:51PM -0800, Rob Adams wrote:
> > We will probably want to make explicit in the spec that struts apply
> > only to the xineramas that the window setting the strut actually
> > overlaps.  So edge panels on one xinerama would set a full-width strut,
> > and the window manager would take this to mean a strut across that
> > particular xinerama.
> > 
> > So partial-width struts would only be used for corner panels.
> > 
> > Does this sound sensible to people?
> > 
> 
> To me, the reason we used struts instead of "do not cover" was to keep
> the extents of the window from affecting the strut, e.g. for panels
> that hide or whatever. So I think it's kind of strange to make struts
> per-xinerama.
> 
> If partial-width struts are the solution, I think panels should have
> to be xinerama-aware and set them explicitly partial-width matching
> the xinerama heads.

	Which is fine because if a panel implementation *isn't* xinerama-aware
it will more than likely span all the monitors anyway.

Good Luck,
Mark.