[sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship

[Jim Gettys]

Note I understand that metacity can be configured to use a dbus/gconf
version, rather than bringing in the dread CORBA/bonobo dependencies
we've worked so hard to avoid.  So don't let ldd mislead you that it
isn't worth a try; it is.

So Metacity is clearly one of the contenders.  This wasn't an option
when Sugar was started, though with 20-20 hindsight, we probably should
have used something other than matchbox from the beginning.
                                - Jim

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:32 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> >
> >  On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> >  > I must have missed the post you refer to. It has never been the
> >  > position of the core Sugar team--that I am aware of--to preclude the
> >  > running of standard Linux apps. We even went so far as to hire a
> >  > contractor to look at various ways to facilitate the running of
> >  > standard X apps last summer---although that work was never completed
> >  > or brought into the main branch.
> >  >
> >
> >  Matthew Allum thinks we're best off not trying to force-fit this into
> >  matchbox (the window manager we're currently using), having done the
> >  experiment last summer.  He's not only the "contractor", but also the
> >  original author of matchbox; so I think we should respect his opinion in
> >  this matter.
> >
> >  We'll investigate alternative window managers, rather than flogging this
> >  horse, which is clearly dead for our purposes. Many of the modern ones
> >  honor full screen hints, and I've never seen Sugar's UI do much that
> >  isn't supported one way or the other by the ICCCM/EWMH's. It may take a
> >  bit of sugar work, but I'd be surprised it will be difficult.
> 
> If someone would like to go ahead and try replacing matchbox with
> metacity, would be great ;)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tomeu
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child