[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 18:26:33 EDT 2008


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> | On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> | <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> |> In summary, I believe we can safely move to a lightly patched Metacity
> |> while tagging our windows purely according to the EWMH.
> |
> | That would mean to make Sugar impossible to use on a standard
> distribution.
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> You mean because it would make Sugar depend on a nonstandard branch of
> Metacity?  I can understand why distributions might be reluctant to carry
> such a thing.

Yup.

I will look into your proposal/discussion tomorrow. My brain is pretty
much dead at the moment :)

Marco



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