[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta
<sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some of our activities have a separate fullscreen mode. Take a look at
> the two screenshots of record:
>
> Fullscreen: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_metacity/Captura%20de%20pantalla_1.png
> Normal: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_metacity/Captura%20de%20pantalla_1_2.png
>
> Marco suggest that this can be worked around in sugar though.

Yeah this could be handled differently in Sugar.

> However, though we do not always show frames (or panels), there are
> some environments which show at least a single panel all the time (eg:
> Ubuntu Netbook Remix). In those cases, fullscreen might mean that
> frame may have to be covered as well. Who knows, maybe in the future
> sugar may also decide to show a single frame permanently on the
> screen.

I'm not even sure why it works with the current frame... The wm is
supposed fullscreen windows on the top of docks:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#STACKINGORDER

Another point is that Sugar activities would have to be modified to
run correctly on a normal desktop (or we would have to come up with
some logic to set the fullscreen hint conditionally).

Marco