[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are we set on moving to metacity?  I remember murmurs of using xmonad,
>> as well as another wm I can't remember the name of.  Are these
>> stacking/hinting problems common to all window mangers, or just
>> metacity?
>
> They are common to all standard compliant window manager. To be honest
> I haven't even looked into the metacity implementation in detail yet.
> I'm trying to figure out something that make sense on the base of the
> EWMH specification.

Btw the main reason we are considering metacity is that it uses
several of the libraries used for the Sugar UI (gobject, gtk, gconf
etc).

Marco