Classic Mode bundle

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:36 -0500, Andrew Clunis wrote:
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> Owen Williams wrote:
> > Classic Mode is a bundle that embeds a Xephyr session in an activity.
> > It's very useful for running non-sugarized programs.
> 
> That's pretty neat, but Xephyr is kind of laggy even on a fat laptop.
> It certainly won't be any good for running SDL based games, for
> instance.  I do that on my XO right now by killing matchbox and starting
> twm, which is obviously not appropriate for non-developer use.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to fix Sugar and Matchbox to handle "normal"
> applications running directly on the real X server?

Not if that involves overlapping windows, no.  The whole point of
classic was for those apps that people, for whatever reason, just _have_
to run that don't deal well with Matchbox, which fullscreens all
non-dialog windows by default.

Which is the behavior we want.  If you're running a legacy application,
you use Classic to do so.  Those legacy applications do not fit into the
Sugar framework.

The problem with having something like Classic is that it's a crutch
that developers can use to ignore optimizing their application for the
OLPC laptop.

Dan

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> Andrew Clunis
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