Gräßlin: Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7

On his blog, Martin Griilin describes some of the multi-screen problems that users have been running into on KDE Plasma 5.7, what the causes are, and why multi-screen is a difficult problem to solve. "Many users expect that new windows open on the primary screen. Unfortunately primary screen does not imply that, it's only a hint for the desktop shell where to put it's panels, but does not have any meaning for normal windows.Of course windows should be placed on a proper location. If a window opens on a turned off external TV something is broken. And KWin wouldn't do so. KWin places new windows on the "active screen". The active screen is the one having the active window or the mouse cursor (depending on configuration setting). Unless, unless the window adds a positioning hint. Unfortunately it looks like windows started to position themselves to incorrect values and I started to think about ignoring these hints in future. If applications are not able to place themselves correctly, we might need to do something about it.Of course KWin allows the user to override it. With windowing specific rules one can ignore the requested geometry."