Bug 136787

Summary: Need option for panel to span multiple screens
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Need Real Name <lsof>
Component: gnome-panelAssignee: Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
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Description Need Real Name 2004-10-22 12:06:38 UTC 
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Description of problem:
It would be nice if the panel could span multiple screens.
Currently a panel is needed for each screen.

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2004-10-28 14:00:28 UTC 
Best thing to do is add some rationale as to why there's a need for
both behaviours as opposed to one or the other. Alternatively, explain
why you think spanning the entire screen is always the right thing:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73475
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2004-10-28 14:12:39 UTC 
There is a need for both behaviours because there is a need for both
setups.

If you have two monitors next to each other, with no (or little) join
between the two, then what you really have, in effect, is a single
wide monitor. Spanning the entire screen is the right thing to do.

If you have two monitors near each other, with a gap between them,
then it makes more sense that the monitors are treated separately.

Allowing a panel to be sized horizontally would fix this bug (a
preference would be a nicer fix though).
Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2004-10-28 14:20:45 UTC 
Sorry, I should have been more clear - please add your comments to the
upstream bug report