Mini-Conference Proposal: desktop applications

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Sugar breaks with the standard desktop metaphor by design and doing so
it introduces incompatibilities at several levels. The barrier between
activities and standard applications proved to be a critical problem
in practice. Fortunately most of the current code base is using GNOME
and freedesktop libraries, formats and semantics. I'd like to present
an analysys of the points of incompatibility. Discuss how to integrate
desktop applications, beginning from the user experience requirements.
Propose solutions and trade-offs to reconcile the incompatibilities in
the window management and activity launching area.

Marco