[Feature Request] mate-panel capacity to manage multiple monitors

[xian555]

Expected behaviour

When using a portable computer with an external monitor, or a desktop with two monitors the user can define panels for each monitor. If a monitor is disconnected than there is no change to the panel configuration on the remaining monitor. When the disconnected monitor is reconnected the panels configures for that monitor re-appear. If monitors are reconnected in a different order on a desktop computer than, if identification of each monitor allows it, the panel configuration for each monitor will follow each monitor, independent of connection order.

Actual behaviour

The mate-panel app does not support multiple monitors, not even allowing the choice of repeating a panel configuration to be displayed the same on each monitor.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

MATE general version

1.24.0

Package version

Linux core 5.15.0-76

Linux Distribution

Ubuntu 20.04.06 with Mate

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

[lukefromdc]

Open mate-control-center->displays, check "show monitors in panel" and you get a tray applet for managing one or more menus

[xian555]

Hi lukefromdc,
Nope that's not it. The requested functionality, I just checked, has been implemented in Cinamon. Is there any way to port it over to Mate. Other than this lack of functionality of being able to have different panels for each monitor I prefer Mate by a long shot.

[lukefromdc]

There is no simple way to port something over from Cinnamon's panel to mate-panel, as the codebase is completely different. Cinnamon is a fork of gnome-shell, written because when Linux Mint was using gnome-shell extensions to regain a GNOME 2 style interface, gnome-shell was still very new, under heavy development, and that constantly broke the extensions. By comparison mate-panel is a fork of GNOME 2's gnome-panel and the code is totally different. What can be done is to share commits between Caja, Nemo, and Nautilus as the first two are forks of the 3ed.

[xian555]

Hi Luke, Thanks for the quick response and taking the trouble of explaining the differences.  However it's not clear as to the relationship between expanding the space managed by mate-panel to more than one screen and the three file manages you mentioned. Although intuitively expanding the space managed by mate-panel to more than one screen does not seem like an enormous effort, I presume that it's like most things in life, not that simple.  I'm working on complex solutions to help people with Alzheimer's and so it's not realistic that I volunteer to help. It seems to me that there are so many people using 2 or more screens these days. Is it possible to poll users to see the level of interest ? Best Regards, Christian Le 12 juill. 2023, 19 h 05, à 19 h 05, Luke from DC ***@***.***> a écrit:

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There is no simple way to port something over from Cinnamon's panel to mate-panel, as the codebase is completely different. Cinnamon is a fork of gnome-shell, written because when Linux Mint was using gnome-shell extensions to regain a GNOME 2 style interface, gnome-shell was still very new, under heavy development, and that constantly broke the extensions. By comparison mate-panel is a fork of GNOME 2's gnome-panel and the code is totally different. What can be done is to share commits between Caja, Nemo, and Nautilus as the first two are forks of the 3ed. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1383 (comment) You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>