Sugar window managing UI (was: Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting)

2010-01-06 Thread Sascha Silbe

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:18:47PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:

I think there's room for solid innovation here, especially since the 
window manager of sugar was *my* personal roadblock to productive 
on-XO activity development.
Interesting. What exactly about the window manager crippled your 
productivity?
I myself am using full-screen workspaces (using ion3) on my desktop 
(with 24 TFT attached to it) most of the time. What I hate about the 
Sugar window managing UI is:

a) _very_ long switching time
b) there's no way to switch to a specific window (=activity instance), I 
need to cycle through all of them with Alt+Tab/Alt+Shift+Tab (the latter 
being somewhat difficult to type on the XO-1).


b) is probably easy enough to fix (just add some key bindings to 
metacity).
a) is harder as every window switch currently involves saving current 
state to the DS (which resides on an abysmally slow SD card in my case), 
usually done synchronously.


CU Sascha

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Re: Sugar window managing UI (was: Re: Android, OLPC, and native hosting)

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel Drake
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:49 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote:
 a) is harder as every window switch currently involves saving current 
 state to the DS (which resides on an abysmally slow SD card in my case), 
 usually done synchronously.

It also generates log messages, right? In which case, a fix for
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9924 would help significantly.

Daniel


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