pannel placement on left, top bottom or right most edge instead of individual moniot

[hernot]

Current

Panels can be placed on either edge (left, bottom, right,top') of a monitor with specific monitor order number (1,2,3 ...).

I do work in different environment where i do have diverse monitor configurations mostly varing in numbers of available monitors

• built in + 2 external (main office)
• built in + 1 external (remote office)
• builtin only

I have currently 3 panels

top Monitor 0 (menu + indicator applet, desktop selector and connected devices ...)
bottom Monitor 0 (system health)
Left monitor which can be on monitor 2 1 or 0 (dependent upon available setup) list of open windows

Any time i connect to a different monitor configuration i have to open dconf-editor to change the monitor number of the left panel to the actual left most monitor. If i do not so it is either in the middle of the screen or not even reachable via panel configuration dialog.

Suggestion:

In addition to left, bottom, top, right edge of dedicated monitor also allow placement to left_most, right-most, bottom-most or top-most edge of overall screen, independent of the number of attached monitors and their actual position.
In dconf setting this could be indicated by putting '-1' for the monitor number.

On displacing the panes the left, right, top, bottom most monitor would be selected when monitor number reads -1 and it would also have to be changed when number of connected monitors changes.

Remark:

I just use linear monitor configurations. And I'm totally fine if panels span at max a single monitor.