==== Roadmap ====

Code: [[http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/log/?h=bluesabre/display-settings|bluesabre/display-settings branch]]

== Stage 1 ==
Target: Xfce 4.12, Implementation: 100%
  * Support extended desktop mode for multiple monitors
  * Improve minimal dialog
Status: Wait for testing/bugreports for 4.11.0.

== Stage 2 ==
Target: , Implementation: 75%
  * Replace treeview with iconview (DONE)
  * Support xfce4-notifyd's themes for the identity-popups
  * Support setting the primary monitor (Related bug: [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9338|9338]]) (DONE)
  * Create "display profiles" (save setups based on EDID) (DONE)

==== Changelog Version 4.11.0 ====
  * Implement support for extended desktop mode
  * Improve minimal dialog
  * Use new big icons to make minimal dialog easier to understand
  * Implement display identification popups
  * Improve applying new settings (now works with Nvidia's proprietary driver as well)
  * Fix small naming inconsistencies

==== Status Quo ====

=== Minimal Dialog ===

The minimal dialog can be called when a new display is plugged in (given that the laptop send the appropriate signal). It should provide users quick access to four of the most-used modes:
  * Only Display 1
  * Extend desktop to the right
  * Mirror displays
  * Only Display 2

The "Advanced" button opens the normal display-dialog.

{{:design:xfce4-settings:minimal.png?direct&200|}}

=== Display Settings Dialog ===

The main thing that changed here are the comboboxes to change the monitor position and the mirror-checkbox. (Note: the mirror-mode in the position-combobox only sets the currently selected display to mirror _one_ other display. This is mostly relevant in 2+ displays setups.) The comboboxes give the user a way of positioning always 2 displays relative to each other. In total, users can still position as many displays as they have.
Four positions are available: left-of, above, right-of, below.

{{:design:xfce4-settings:dialog.png?direct&200|}}

=== Identification Popups ===

For users to more easily know what display they're currently modifying, we decided to implement "identity-popups". These show the name of the display (same as in the treeview) and the resolution.
These popups are currently shown at the bottom of the respective display.

{{:design:xfce4-settings:popups.png?direct&200|}}

==== Open Issues ====

**Hotplugging Scenarios**
  * with an external display connected, internal display disabled, we want to re-enable the internal display when the cable gets __disconnected__
  * when __connecting__ an external/additional display, we could show a notification-popup with an action-button to either enable the display directly and/or open the display-dialog
  * when the laptop-lid gets closed (e.g. in a docking-station), we should disable the display (currently this doesn't happen reliably with xfce4-power-manager, maybe this functionality should reside in xfsettingsd?)

Minimal dialog:
  * Add the 10sec-reset-timeout dialog just to be sure

General:
  * <del>Fix 3 commit authors (merge locally, then rebase interactive on origin/master and set a new committer)</del>
  * Celebrate the release!