kde-4 display settings tool difficult usability (for two displays configuration)

[mmm]

Binary package hint: systemsettings-kde4

Hi all.
A situation description (i booted the ubuntu interpid ibex live cd and testing it):
I am have two displays and i would like to set up a laptop LVDS panel screen to be right of the external panel. The outputs are detected okay. The state is that both screen has the lower resolution of the two screens (lvds - 1400x1050), so far okay (actually the output for external panel, VGA-0, showed the resolution 1600x1200 but it had same as lvds). Then i want to switch the resolution of the external panel to 1600x1200 (the optimal one). I changed just the fields for resolution and it switched well. The corners of botch panels viewports were in the left upper corner, the positions of monitor fields were showing Clone of.... (something).

Now the hardly usable part comes:
How to move the layout to the right positions that the viewports does not overlay each other (at least not much).
1. The right part of the settings tool looks like designed for drag and drop abilities, but it does not do anything (okay... just a preview chart).
2. the border between the preview image and the settings is fixed, so shows slightly over 30% of the area with the control elements.
3. if i set up on first output that should be left of the another one the values in the second one are still same, so virtually is possible to set up nonsense, even if i set it right it does not do any action
4. even if i set up the position fields instead of right/left of to absolute values it does not do anything. I did not manage even to move the smaller sceen over the larger screen area (the 1600x1200 screen is workin okay but the lvds panel still starts in the left upper corner of the panel connected to vga-0 output).

What cames to my mind is that there is missing to be a set-up of the virtual sreen area where the viewports are positioned. Maybe the settings could be there more visible (if any of the steps need restart of xorg server it did not tell me).

regards
m.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ systemsettings --version
Qt: 4.4.1
KDE: 4.1.00 (KDE 4.1.0)
System Settings: 4.1.00 (KDE 4.1.0)

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The best way to resolve this would be to make KDE aware of the issue by filing a bug at bugs.kde.org, and linking the report here so it can be tracked.

[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

I don't think it is as simple as the GNOME version, though I don't find it to difficult to use at this time, however that doesn't mean much really. If anyone finds an upstream report concerning this, or files an upstream report, could you please link it to this report?

Also, maybe we can get Celeste to take a look into this report as well.

[Romain Henriet (romain-henriet)]

I also find this issue very cumbersome. This is not a wish as extended screen is a basic configuration. The only way I have found for the moment is running xrandr in a terminal to enable/disable extended desktop.
Moreover, this tool works in openSuse. There is a combo box where you can select whether each screen's position is absolute or relative, and regarding to which screen.

[Łukasz Kuryło (lukasz-kurylo)]

Can't this work like arandr?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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