On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 13:51 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 12:45 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:18 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
Last week, I was at the Usenix LISA conference in Washington, DC. If you are not familiar, LISA is "Large Installation System Administration", and this is the premiere conference for professional sysadmins.
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There were two particular themes that I heard over and over about desktop in particular:
- need for better multi-monitor support
As Bastien said, we'd really need more specifics on this one - there are some general issues we know of (e.g. vertically stacked monitors don't work well) - but I'm uncertain what ones would be of relevance to sysadmins. I'm not even sure what the breakdown for sysadmins is between laptops and desktops - which have very different considerations for multi-monitors.
Some complaints I've heard, off the top of my head:
- no way of saying "launch on this monitor"
- window placement is forgetful when hotplugs are involved
It's forgetful even when they're *not* involved. Every goddamn time I boot up my dual-monitor system, gedit is on the right hand monitor; every goddamn time, I drag it manually across to the left hand monitor. This is a desktop with dual displays, I don't unplug and replug them, yet the session management stuff seems to consistently fail to remember which head gedit is supposed to be on. Seems to remember other apps okay, though.