From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Epiphany/1.4.4 Description of problem: It would be nice if the panel could span multiple screens. Currently a panel is needed for each screen. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: x Additional info:
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
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).
Sorry, I should have been more clear - please add your comments to the upstream bug report