On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 13:03:27 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote:

On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 11:09:22 -0500, Paul wrote:

Grease Monkey wrote:
Replying to 11/13 Grease Monkey

Thanks for confirming that the taskbars are (almost) mirrored, by design.
One of the 7,000 developers must have thought it was a feature, not a bug.

I've been thinking about the "logic" of that "almost mirroring" since you
wrote that a developer thought it was a good idea.

What's the logic?

It does allow you to see what's going on, if you're
near the Primary monitor and not the Secondary Monitor.

Other than that, it doesn't seem like a good design call.
People "expect" the spanned mode to span everything, and
put the notifications in the corner of the other monitor.
Making things behave in a mixed fashion, only leaves
people with a "feeling of confusion". They look at
the decorations, then say to themselves "am I in
Mirrored Mode, or what". That's a disadvantage of
mixing concepts at the same time like that.

What would be the advantage of stretching the task bar across multiple
monitors? That would seem to me to be extremely awkward, in practice.
I expect the Start button and the Notification area, and everything in
between, to be on a single monitor. I routinely move individual windows
around to one display or another, but I expect the taskbar to be fixed
in one place, on the primary display.


I also greatly prefer the task bar to be on a single monitor. A big
part of the reason for my preference is that, with today's wide-screen
monitors, I also prefer to have the task bar on the left side of my
two-screen display, not on the bottom of either. In my opinion, that
makes a much better use of screen real estate.