Re: struts, workareas and xinerama

[Bradley T Hughes <bhughes trolltech com>]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 01:53:17 Dana Jansens wrote:
> My proposal is to add another level of array to the _NET_WORKAREA hint.
>
> _NET_WORKAREA, x, y, width, height CARDINAL[][][4]/32
>
> So that it is an array of desktops, with x,y,width,height, which can
> appear any number of times.  I'm not sure what's a good way of wording
> that.
>
> So, for the example with 2 similar desktops, it could be:
> [0, 0, 7, 5,  0, 0, 7, 5,   7, 2, 4, 4,  7, 2, 4, 4]
>
> Meaning first desktop-first monitor is 0, 0, 7x5
>   second desktop-first monitor is 0, 0, 7x5
>   first desktop-second monitor is 7, 2, 4x4
>   second desktop-second monitor is 7, 2, 4x4
>
> This has the property of being backwards compatible with previous
> versions of the specification.  An application can read only the first
> n (number of desktops) dimensions and ignore the remainder, and it
> will not end up putting icons in nowhereland.

Sounds like a good idea to me, you've got my vote :)

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