[sugar] 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.
pgf at laptop.org
pgf at laptop.org
Fri Oct 17 15:23:38 EDT 2008
can we stop referring to anything non-sugary as a "legacy" app.
i'd submit that we all use dozens of such apps every day, most
of which are in no danger of going away anytime soon. :-)
how about referring to them as "existing X11 apps".
paul
c. scott ananian wrote:
> I'd like to present a few areas where sugar can "play nice with
> others", including:
> * replacing the matchbox window manager, to provide better
> multiple-window support for legacy apps (think of the 'gimp', running
> as multiple windows without one full-screen "activity area" aka
> "virtual desktop")
> * making sugar behave well when run in non-full-screen-mode under
> metacity. This includes refactoring home/friends/mesh view as
> operations on root window, so they make sense in a multiwindow setup.
> (It's been suggested that looking at the xpenguins code is instructive
> for understanding how nautilus,etc arrange their root window.)
> * Switch to standard freedesktop.org startup notification mechanism:
> ticket #5271
> * Implement freedesktop.org notifications mechanism for alerts (low
> battery, low disk space, available software update)
> * Use standard fd.o notification area in frame -- I think this would
> also address cjb's desire to put the 'stop' button for recordmydesktop
> in the frame.
>
> I don't think I will actually have time to work on many of these areas
> in the 9.1 time frame, so I especially encourage interested/motivated
> parties to make concrete proposals on pieces of this work. (Or
> suggest other areas we should improve.)
> --scott
>
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