Running regular X11 apps

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
|> Can't regular activities just ask to be maximized
|> and/or ask to be the same size as the screen?
|> The common Python libraries could do this.
|
| * Applications like firefox gets displayed like normal windows with
| decorations, which is suboptimal.

I disagree.  Firefox is designed to be run under a window manager with
decorations and all.  It uses additional windows for a variety of
notifications and information, like starting and monitoring downloads, or
accepting self-signed certificates.  It even has a "new window" function
under the File menu.  Firefox is really a multi-window program, and so are
OpenOffice, Pidgin, Thunderbird, Evolution, and most other modern X11 apps.

If you want instant compatibility with legacy apps, then legacy mode must
simply provide a traditional window manager, decorations included.

- --Ben

P.S. Of course, there are lots of other compatibility issues with Rainbow
and Datastore, but that's not what this thread is about.
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