[sugar] 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) *

Re: [sugar] 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

Re: [sugar] 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: [sugar] 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 :) Marco

Re: [sugar] 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 in no danger of

Re: [sugar] 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 multiple

Re: [sugar] 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 installed

Re: [sugar] 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 point. I've

Re: [sugar] 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 of XDG

Re: [sugar] 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 requiring an