-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I mostly use a laptop or desktop with a single display for work. When I use an additional monitor it's usually in 'mirror' mode when giving a presentation. Yesterday however I had a go at multi-monitor in latest 12.04. A couple of issues worried me and once I started talking about it, it seems I'm not alone. * With two monitors side by side a launcher is on both and traversing the (always out) launcher the mouse slows. The slowing of the mouse as you pass the boundary is very jarring when I can't smoothly drag an item or even just the mouse from one desktop to another. I ended up mitigating this issue by putting the external screen above my laptop screen (which was actually practical in this example given the size [40"] of the external screen) but it's way more common to have desktops side by side. https://twitter.com/#!/popey/status/175235794909401090/photo/1 * Launcher (and top bar) on every desktop wastes space and is somewhat redundant. I can appreciate the "I have to travel a long way to get to a single launcher on one screen" argument for having one on every desktop. But as I have my launcher always visible (the default) it's a chunk of space along the side which I can't use for anything else, and leads to the issue outlined above. Ideally I'd like to have the option to have the launcher on one desktop of my choosing, and be able to dial down the resistance to make it less obnoxious. * Multi-monitor usage patterns. It _feels_ like the usage pattern that Unity launcher placement and multi-screen behaviour is based on is limited to "use each screen for one separate task at a time". If I did this and didn't have to traverse the screens much I could probably cope with the above issues a lot better. However that doesn't seem to be the way most people use multi-monitors. I might have a mail open on one, and a browser on another, zipping the mouse between to cut/paste or just scroll the window. It feels like this wasn't designed for, but more "stay on one screen until your unit of work is complete". Are we tracking these issues somewhere? - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPUKfWAAoJEMx6UFtfvV4wU/gH/0wk8TCaVd3mdf2xRGfQ+Ss5 2giapBMjXYJIvl3ivKLSHnXjCo3K7oeFNtAFudJCZO9uZQLNumSUFB/hseO82SEm MIF5CaNPKK2MtYOhnuqG04fKIY6UbZm4ywiCcBQ+Q4v9GXa9ATFgFx/HdAZua/F6 37zrwq25YI4QLgERDPsgYT6wdfcMEQrpVDXKJy1Ax7JFathRlyPOTtI7eg7wIslB JJbLUXafkHXxaEw8W5u6eKf6vfiMTpCqMmcJ8dG+p4XD4EeqpuKFQwdmCZ7J/+04 GfJBjzQTXK5O3z8LaUtddOLYKGXrCCTkOvFjlILwoK5motYcQzqLy3yRHH+hr6Y= =fReS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
