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[Josh Strawbridge <holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx>]

that's the way i understood it to.  those are some good points but why
would anyone put a window across multiple monitors if they aren't planning
on using those monitors for that window without a lot of interruptions?

i personally wouldn't have a problem with having a monitor's worth of my
window swap to an unused workspace as i'm likely going to be swapping back
to the previous one shortly. i think it would be better than trying to swap
to another workspace in order to temporarily do something else and still
having the multi-monitor window cover everything but i can understand how
swapping one monitor and breaking up a multi-monitor window it isn't really
the most elegant of things to have happen.

the the best option that i could think of would be to visibly shrink the
multi monitor window down to a single monitor unitl it comes back into
focus or the user swaps that monitor back to the previous workspace and
then have it convert back to it's normal size.
a shrink/grow animation similar to the orange box when you're full
screening or half screening a window by dragging it to the top or one of
the sides of the screen wouldn't be so bad.

i've got no ideas about possible solutions for the different sized monitor
problems.  though i don't know of a setup using different sized monitors
which doesn't have those problems.
my brother used to use different sized monitors. he's a windows user so he
didn't have the option of workspaces but he had some of those kinds of
problems as well when simply dragging a window from one monitor to the next.
heck, i even had some of those problems a while back when swapping between
a 1920x1080p TV and then swapping it back to my old 1600x1200 monitor later
on.  it would open hulu desktop in a resolution wider than i was using and
wouldn't let me shrink it down enough to fit my monitor without editing the
file that kept track of the huluDesktop window size.
i don't know that there is a good solution for that other than not using
different sized monitors and that's not really even a solution to the
problem... especially if you've already got different sized monitors.

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Josh Strawbridge