[openbeos] Re: About Screen pref
- From: Fredrik Modéen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:32:38 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Fredrik Modéen wrote (2007-07-13, 10:44:00 [+0200]):
>> 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.
>
> Fredrik, this subject was already discussed a few times, and the
> conclusion
> was that a workspace is a "screen configuration". Meaning one workspace
> controls all attached monitors. A workspace is one configuration of those
> monitors, plus it holds associated windows. Please think about it, or dig
> up old mail archives if you feel like that, but this setup is really the
> closest to the original idea of what a workspace is in BeOS.
thanks for the heads-up. Didn't know that.
>
>> Another thing would be what Rudolf was woring on. Support for more than
>> one grafic card.
>
> That would need to be handled transparently for the user. It's a lot of
> work to do it right.
And I will probably not be the one developing it :)
>
>> By the way how do every body develop changes in the app_server? How do
>> they test there changes?
>
> Maybe it wouldn't be a great help for your screen related testing, but we
> have the "app_server test environment" for that. Bascially, you run the
> Haiku app_server in a BeOS window, the BeOS window provides both the
> "graphics card" and the input_server for the Haiku app_server. To try it,
> you can go to the folder
>
> src/tests/servers/app/playground
>
> run
>
> TARGET_PLATFORM=libbe_test jam -q install-test-apps
>
> and then you can use the "run" script in that folder to launch all related
> apps at once. The jam line will have produced a few more targets in the
> folder
>
> generated/tests/libbe_test/x86/apps
>
> You can launch them by double clicking them in R5, they will open inside
> the Haiku app_server. The Screen preflet is already a target for the test
> environment, and you can even use it to resize the BeOS window in which
> the
> app_server runs. Maybe you can even change the fake graphics card
> (src/servers/app/drawing/ViewHWInterface.*) to support the dual head
> protocoll with the Screen preflet and multiple screens... :-)
sound's like fun ;) but first the Screen Pref..
>
>
> Have fun... :-)
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
> P.S. I have not tried building the test environment in a while or in ZETA.
will try that when it's time..
>
>
--
MVH
Fredrik Modéen
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