https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497100
--- Comment #7 from Maxim <maxim.kukush...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Grant Gryczan from comment #5) > I see. But in that case, wouldn't it still be the same monitor with an > existing panel? Or does KDE forget the panel when you disconnect the > monitor? I've disconnected and reconnected monitors before, and panels have > never gotten lost. Yeah, that happens a lot at work and home. Perhaps it's a bug in KDE, or maybe the monitor indeed identifies itself differently sometimes and there's nothing that KDE can do about it. However, even beyond that - at work, many times you have to travel and connect to random monitors/projectors. Many offices nowadays have hot desks and you have to connect to random new monitor every day. There're lots of cases where new monitors is a norm. This feature request has been created not to completely replace the option of always keeping a clone of a panel (I'd be happy if that request was implemented too). However, the original request to keep a clone of a panel raised many technical questions that were hard to address (like what to do in case the monitors have significantly different resolution and the mirrored panel is too big on the other monitor). So I raised this option as an alternative - temporary or permanent (KDE has always been about flexibility and configurability, so in theory both options could be kept). Regarding the point of keeping the panels in sync and having to apply the changes manually to each of them in my original suggestion - yes, I agree that it can be a bit cumbersome and non-obvious at first. The advantages I see in this approach though are (especially if both mirroring and one-off cloning are implemented in future): - Many times on the permanent setups, one may actually want the panels to drift a bit in their configuration. I'm for one who keeps them slightly different sometimes (say, clock/calendar and tray on the primary monitor only) - The configuration of the existing panels is not frequently changed, so rarely adjusting it might not be a big deal. The biggest problem is the initial configuration that is addressed in my proposal - In case major configuration changes are required, with my proposal it can be quickly addressed by deleting the cloned panel and reconnecting the monitor, for the panel to be cloned again That being said, I'm not saying that the above points are applicable to everyone, and I do agree that people have different setups and use cases and some people may need to change the panel configuration daily (for whatever reasons - we're all different). I'm just saying that if such an approach can be implemented in a reasonable time, it would already be a huge relief comparing to the lack of any cloning options atm. That doesn't cancel the fact the actual mirroring of a panel would be really nice to have and I don't see this proposal to be a replacement of mirroring. Rather a quick workaround or (better) an available alternative to mirroring. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
