[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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Comment (by blizzard):

 That feature list is nice, thanks.  But it doesn't help us bring about the
 transformative change that we're talking about doing here.  It's clear
 that if the way those features worked that everyone would use them, but
 they don't.  I think I've used the emacs multiple window hack once in my
 life and it was a disaster to try to get set up.  We're trying to do
 something different here and it requires pulling the community instead of
 pushing it.  If we were to try to get the window manager hints done ahead
 of time I suspect we would still be arguing about it instead of just
 getting work done.  So we're going to get out ahead of the community at
 large and try something new instead of just trying to make everything work
 in the same old framework.  Doing the latter means you just end up with
 something that's the same as what everyone has done before and things
 rarely change.  (Just ask Microsoft how Vista went.)

 That being said, it's very easy to provide a compatibility layer.  John
 set up a desktop-in-a-box for the sdk CD and it seems to work quite well!
 So that's a good direction to go since we expect it to not be used that
 often.  Memory and processor concerns shouldn't be a huge issue since it
 won't be the common case.  Someone can even run the gimp in that
 environment.

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