Multiple Displays BoF

Hey all!

Cassidy from System76 and elementary here. David Jordan (also from 
System76) and I are organizing a multi-display BoF for GUADEC. The 
audience is Mutter, GNOME Shell, and Settings developers in addition to 
anyone experienced or interested in UX design. The current plan is for 
July 10, Room 1, Morning and Afternoon. I've added it to the wiki as 
instructed, but I'm sure the scheduling is flexible.

https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2018/Hacking%20days/DisplaysBoF

The story behind this interest is that a majority of System76 customers 
using GNOME use multiple displays; i.e. a laptop plus external 
displays, or a desktop with multiple monitors. We're interested in 
taking a look at the current experience and how it could be improved 
for these use cases. I'm particularly interested in investigating the 
different contexts in which multiple displays are used, and how the 
expectations and experience may differ. I know it's often assumed that 
only "neckbeard terminal-loving hackers" use multiple displays and 
window management features like tiling, but in our experience that's 
definitely not the case, and it's something our customers have shown to 
use in data entry, broadcast, sales, and other roles.

elementary OS is also interested in the shared code in Mutter and how 
it can continue to be flexible to different DEs and their 
possibly-differing multi-display experiences.

Let me know if anyone has any questions or would like any 
clarifications, and I'd love to know who would want to and be able to 
attend. We'd love for this to be a productive conversation and planning 
session for shared interests in making GNOME the best desktop for users 
with multiple displays.

Best regards,
Cassidy James Blaede
System76 UX Architect

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