[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:26 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at cscott.net> wrote:
> I think you are confusing the role of the Window Manager.  When I run
> sugar under metacity, I don't *want* my activities to be full screen.
> When I use a windowing wm, I expect them to be in (decorated) windows.

Yeah, ideally it should work like that. That's the main point I was
trying to make about both Sayamindu and Benjamin proposal.

>  Ideally, the sugar home view would run on root, like in nautilus.

This should already work fine.

> I
> suppose we could add a new hint for some activities indicating which
> of their multiple windows (if any) should be the 'background' one
> mapped full-screen, but I believe the existing hints are adequate.

That's what the PRIMARY/APPLICATION was meant to be in my proposal...
I'm not sure the existing hints are adeguate, but if there are window
managers which manage to deal with the gimp correctly, then I guess
there are at least ways to make reasonable guesses.

Marco