Gräßlin: Multi-screen woes in Plasma 5.7

I'm probably a rare case in that I *can* accept it's someone else's anonymous component at fault. In fact almost all the times I've had hardware problems on Intel-based PCs I've owned, it's turned out to be a buggy BIOS or firmware. Serves me right for not buying coreboot-supported computers I guess.

In this case, a laptop, it's a single black box and I've no idea what the LVDS panel inside it is (other than nasty). The average end user's more likely to see problems and blame whatever they can immediately associate them with, be it the laptop maker, those pervasive “Intel inside” stickers, or the OS they're running.

Dragging this back on topic, I can sort of see why the KDE developers get easily frustrated. It's the same story of them relying on another part of the system to do its job right, but it keeps screwing up because the negative feedback processes that do exist fall far short of the root cause. Sadly this seems like such a common problem nobody's found a working solution yet.