[sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship
Tomeu Vizoso
tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net
Mon Apr 28 10:32:13 EDT 2008
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> > I must have missed the post you refer to. It has never been the
> > position of the core Sugar team--that I am aware of--to preclude the
> > running of standard Linux apps. We even went so far as to hire a
> > contractor to look at various ways to facilitate the running of
> > standard X apps last summer---although that work was never completed
> > or brought into the main branch.
> >
>
> Matthew Allum thinks we're best off not trying to force-fit this into
> matchbox (the window manager we're currently using), having done the
> experiment last summer. He's not only the "contractor", but also the
> original author of matchbox; so I think we should respect his opinion in
> this matter.
>
> We'll investigate alternative window managers, rather than flogging this
> horse, which is clearly dead for our purposes. Many of the modern ones
> honor full screen hints, and I've never seen Sugar's UI do much that
> isn't supported one way or the other by the ICCCM/EWMH's. It may take a
> bit of sugar work, but I'd be surprised it will be difficult.
If someone would like to go ahead and try replacing matchbox with
metacity, would be great ;)
Thanks,
Tomeu
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