Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The way it's done right now is to copy mime information to ~/.local at > > installation time. > > I know. I personally don't like r

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way it's done right now is to copy mime information to ~/.local at > installation time. I know. I personally don't like requiring an "installation step", and I think it might be easier to keep the random bits o

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for > > managing mimetype associations and installing activities? > > Good poi

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apart from the window manager stuff - something I will probably be > working on is support for standard .desktop files - which are used to > generate the main menu entries in standard desktops. Any .desktop file > inst

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:37 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for > managing mimetype associations and installing activities? Good point. I've talked with sugar folk about this some already. My Journal2 code is going to

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for > managing mimetype associations and installing activities? Sugar already uses the xdg mime spec. I'm not sure to which utilities you are referring exa

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Garrison
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:07:58PM -0400, 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 multip

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> 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 i

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. :-) I'm using "standard desktop applications"

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread pgf
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

Re: 9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:07 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * 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 su

9.1 Proposal: Legacy compatibility.

2008-10-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
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") *