Re: How to restore the layout?

[Stephen Leake]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Stephen Leake
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I would prefer the restore operation to abort with a message "saved info
>> is for a different display configuration".
>
> That leaves us with the problem of defining what a "display
> configuration" is.

A user name associated with a display size would work for a single
display.

I don't know how to detect multiple displays (I don't use any systems
that have that).

>> The next step would be to keep several saved configurations, and present
>> a menu of which one to restore (one for laptop only, one for laptop plus
>> home monitor, one for work monitor).
>
> You can already save & restore different configurations by saving
> different desktops.

That should be sufficient. The user can then choose the desktop to
restore based on their knowledge of the display config.

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-- Stephe