Shit-or-rama [Was: mod_xinerama]

Some reminders why I will have nothing to do with shit-o-rama:

The downfall of X:

        http://iki.fi/tuomov/b/archives/2008/07/13/T18_03_06/

IRC log from today:

19:45 <xxx> arf..
19:45 <xxx> is there a way to force ion to make all windows visible?
19:45 <xxx> it keeps eating my KDE transients
19:45 <xxx> as in, they show up for the split second, then vanish
19:46 <xxx> leaving me with a frozen app
19:46 <xxx> which is especially awesome when it is the krita save-dialog that 
            i'd *really* like to see so i can save my last 30 minutes of work

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20:18 <xxx> no, it's on a floating workspace

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20:20 <tuomov> umm...
20:20 <tuomov> you don't use the shit-o-rama module, do you?
20:20 <xxx> yes OFCOURSE i'm using shit-o-rama BECAUSE there is no alternative 
            when you use two screens.
20:21 <tuomov> good bye
20:21 <tuomov> it absolutely 100% fucking certainly won't work
20:21 <tuomov> because krita will then have a messed up idea of geometries
20:21 <tuomov> xinerama is fucked
20:21 <tuomov> it does not provide a multihead model
20:22 <tuomov> so one has to provide one with virtual root windows, i.e. extra 
               windows between the actual frames and the root window
20:22 <tuomov> and apps don't understand that
20:22 <tuomov> and calculate their geometries in a fucked up manner
20:22 <xxx> i think i'll start trying to get used to wmii today. ion served me 
            okay the last 2 years but those annoyances stack up. it's just 
            flakey, stuff stops working randomly or works only
            intermittently 
            in first place. 
20:22 <tuomov> raz: it's a fucking xinerama problem, not ion
20:23 <tuomov> I don't have fucking anything to do with shit-o-rama
20:23 <xxx> tuomov, it's ions job to fucking work around it
20:23 <tuomov> why are you complaining here, when you're using shit-o-rama?
20:23 <xxx> tuomov, also it *worked before* but some recent kde update broke it
20:23 <tuomov> it's not my fucking code, you idiot fuckwit
20:23 <xxx> tuomov, it's your fucking wm
20:23 <tuomov> I don't want to have anything to do with shit-o-rama
20:23 <tuomov> it's not my fucking mod_shitorama
20:23 <tuomov> I don't want to have anything to do with that shit
20:23 <tuomov> it won't work
20:24 <tuomov> guess why I don't want to have anything to do with it? because 
               it won't work
20:24 <tuomov> it can't work
20:24 <tuomov> it's fucke dup
20:24 <tuomov> use ion without mod_shitorama, and things might work
20:24 <tuomov> you don't need it, if your screens merge well, and you're 
               content with the same workspaces spanning over both screens
20:25 <tuomov> it's only needed to emulate proper separate screens, but it 
               won't work
20:25 <xxx> i'm not content because my right screen is SMALLER.
20:25 <tuomov> then make them properly separate, don't use shit-o-rama
20:25 <xxx> and i somewhat like to see the bottom part of my windows.
20:25 <tuomov> use plain old x multihead
20:25 <xxx> then i can't move windows between workspaces.
20:25 <xxx> so i could just as well use two separate computers. not quite my 
            use-case.
20:25 <tuomov> that's what you have to choose between
20:26 <tuomov> or better yet: donate the second screen to some poor kid in 
               africa
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20:27 <tuomov> maybe someone can write a shitorama setup that doesn't use 
               virtual roots
20:27 <tuomov> by rewriting the configs
20:27 <tuomov> but I don't want to have anything to do with that
20:27 <tuomov> and it will also be fucked up, because then float workspaces on 
               the screens won't be properly separate
20:27 <tuomov> it won't emulate separate screens
20:28 <tuomov> shit-o-rama is just _shit_
20:28 <tuomov> it can't work, it won't work. it's as simple as that.
20:28 <tuomov> traditional X multihead offers the correct separate-screen model 
               for displays that don't merge well
20:28 <tuomov> but the dicheads and fuckwits running things, are obsoleting it
20:28 <tuomov> and not updating it to reflect new requirements
20:29 <tuomov> (such as reparents between screens)

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Tuomo