[sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars & Tabs (or lack thereof)

[Wade Brainerd]

I wonder if the differences between Sugar and a regular window manager
aren't so severe that it might be worth offering a simple desktop
environment which runs within Sugar as a Activity?

You would download and launch this Activity, and its interface would
be a regular Linux desktop.  It would support multiple windows, a
"taskbar", a "start menu", etc. (I'm using Windows terms here). You
could install and launch regular GTK+ applications in it, and they
would not need to be "sugarized" at all.  The GTK theme used by the
Desktop would still match Sugar of course.

If we did this, we would not be stuck with trying to shoehorn third
party applications into a UI they were not designed for (one toplevel
window, no menus) and would conceivably be able to launch any Linux
app assuming the needed libraries were installed.

I'm not an X windows expert, but does this sound like possible way to
solve this issue?

Best,

Wade

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:27 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>  >  Could someone with some experience with GTK/Gnome themes comment
>  >  briefly on how reasonable it would be to create a theme to make legacy
>  >  applications look as much as possible like our "old" sugar and "new"
>  >  sugar proposal?
>
>  The look of each single toolbar (color, spacing, icon size etc) is
>  dictated by the theme, so the styles should be already consistent.
>  Sugar is basically taking one or more standard gtk toolbars and
>  grouping them together.
>
>  Though the sugar design uses multiple toolbars as a substitute of
>  menus in standard gtk applications. And there is not much we can do
>  about that kind of "incompatibility" (which is fine, perhaps).
>
>  Marco
>
>
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