Comment 2 for bug 602298

Hi! Someone's actually using panning :)
If more people are using panning, I'd be happy to add it. The important question is: what do people use it for, why and how? You are more than welcome to carefully answer these three questions.

My answer would be something like: the 'dead area' is annoying, sometimes stuff can 'disappear' into that area. This is best solved by making sure that is treated as really off-screen (window manager+toolkits looking at Xinerama info). If that is a little hard to achieve, one could make X pan to the area when the mouse cursor moves there and pan back to the default immediately when the cursor leaves the area (the latter is not possible by default iirc).

Disper is a user-centric interface around low-level display interfaces, that's why I'm asking this.