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  • In my case (blessed with not having to work with Windows), the kludgy feel of how workspaces previously worked with multiple monitors has sometimes made me not bother connecting them up.

    The old way tries to merge the two monitors into a single screen, and so when your monitors have different resolutions, your “single screen” is now sort of L-shaped. Which would cause weird effects on some DEs where for instance dragging a window off the edge of the smaller monitor wouldn’t work, as width of the “single screen” was taken to be the width of the larger monitor not the smaller one. (I must add that KDE is not one of these DEs, and you can drag off the edge like that)

    There are still some behaviours with per-screen virtual desktops that I hope might be fixed in future - such as “Zoom Desktop” (Meta+mousewheel). I use this quite a bit for reducing the black bars on extra wide aspect ratio films, and it does zoom both monitors at the moment. I don’t know if it’d be practical to have this feature just zoom one desktop, but it would be great for me when I’m working and have Netflix on at the same time.



  • How many others are loving the “per-screen virtual desktops” feature introduced with 6.7?

    It seems there’s a small (?) contingent of people who’ve been clamouring for this ever since multi-monitor setups became commonplace. Then there’s a whole nother load of people who don’t care.

    Do many people here even use multiple workspaces? I know many just have all apps open on the visible workspace and alt-tab between them.



  • after “all of the above” they specify the 30kph as “if it’s only a raised border”

    Yes, that’s why I asked if they really meant “all of the above” - I rather suspect they were just referring to the other measures that do make sense for both protected and unprotected cycle paths (only bicyclists allowed, distinctive paint schemes etc).

    a 2-3in stepped concrete block and keeping the cycling lane raised

    pretty sure this is what is meant by protected cycle lane - some kind of kerb between the cycle lane and the motor vehicle lane. There are many cycle lanes like this in Europe and they are unquestionably way safer. FYI you don’t need to have the cycle path raised to the same height as the kerb - many do not do that, and just have a line of raised kerb stones on the traffic side of the bike lane.