[Trac #1287] Make the sugar shell more friendly to non-activity windows

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#1287: Make the sugar shell more friendly to non-activity windows
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 Reporter:  marco   |        Owner:  marco  
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  high    |    Milestone:  BTest-3
Component:  sugar   |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:          |  
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Changes (by jg):

 * cc: walter (added)
  * priority:  normal => high

Comment:

 Heh.  The current system is downright hostile to non-sugar applications,
 to the point that even full screen capable applications that "should just
 work", are made invisible.  This situation has really got to be fixed.  It
 makes it impossible to even use simple existing X utilities from the
 developer's console to help development. What is more, there are quite a
 few existing full screen kids applications available on Linux, that should
 "just work", if we'd let them.

 I know this first hand, it having made fixing the fonts for flash way more
 painful, as I needed to run xfontsel (yes, can you believe it, xfontsel)
 and it cost me a good half hour of wasted effort.

 We need to start using the ICCCM and EWMH and behave like a more standard
 environment.  I haven't seen much (if anything) in sugar that can't be
 done in that framework.  And if they don't, we need to work in the
 community to define what is needed.  This way our activities will "just
 work" on standard environments as well.

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