KDE 4.6 released

I have a laptop. When I am out of office, I use it with its own screen, keyboard and touchpad. When I am in office, I use it with an external larger monitor, an external bigger keyboard and a mouse. With randr it is easy to switch on the external monitor and off the laptop screen.

Unfortunately the monitor resolution is different from the laptop screen resolution (1920x1200 the laptop, 1680x1050 the large monitor).

I have the following issues (unfortunately some of them have worsened with kde 4.6)

1) When the panel migrates from the laptop screen to the external monitor it remains too large, so I need to reconfigure it.

2) When the panel migrates from the laptop screen to the external monitor, those plasmoids close to the right border of the screen are moved left to be kept inside the smaller screen. When I go back to the laptop screen, objects are left in the middle of the screen. Think of the trashcan that is usually on the right bottom corner and gets in the middle of the screen.

With kde 4.5.5 I was able to solve 2 with activities (possibly abusing them a little). I had a "Monitor" and a "Laptop-Display" activities, each with the plasmoid placed in the right place for the output display resolution. Since in 4.5 plasmoids were not automatically moved around this assured that I could always have my plasmoids in the right place. With kde 4.6 this is not possible anymore.

I would be very happy if kde developers could consider my usage case. Most people I know do the same as I do, liking the possibility to have a laptop, but also the luxury of working with a larger monitor whenever possible.

Maybe an idea would be to introduce the idea of an anchor for positioning objects. Namely, after having positioned the trashcan, I would be able to say that the position should be anchored to the bottom right corner of the screen, so that whatever the resolution of the screen, the trashcan is always placed at the right distance from the right and the bottom screen edges.