[openbeos] Re: About Screen pref
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:36:58 +0200 CEST
Fredrik Modéen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Haiku or BeOS do not properly support dual monitors. Therefor, the
> I know and it's time that it does :)
Sure, but this has to start with the app_server, not Screen. If you
hack something together now, it will likely be thrown away later,
anyway.
The current hacky multi-screen support of the graphics cards add little
value IMO.
> I have my own suggestion aswell :)
> one screen one workspace. Screen 1 shows worspace 1 and screen 2
> shows
> workspace 2. don't know if this will add anything other than it would
> be
> cool.
Please read this blog post to see how multi-screen support will work
under Haiku:
http://axeld.blogspot.com/2005/11/workspaces.html
> Another thing would be what Rudolf was woring on. Support for more
> than
> one grafic card.
He worked on it from the POV of a graphics driver - when you have more
than one card, you'll likely have to coldstart the card in order to get
it to work.
This is completely different from what the app_server has to do. Also,
the current accelerator API does not really take mult-screen into
account (ie. multiple screens coming from one card).
> By the way how do every body develop changes in the app_server? How
> do
> they test there changes?
You either have to run Haiku on a real machine or an emulator of your
choice - or run the test environment on R5.
> but before changing app_server and stuff I need to make Screen Pref 2
> (that way the original will not be efftected.)
Since it's not yet clear how the app_server support for multiple
screens will look like, it makes no sense to start with a preferences
application for it now.
Bye,
Axel.
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