As Walter said. For me it is nice to have the window option, and I use it. But if it is a pain to maintain and takes time from you Daniel, I'm +1 for dropping it.
2013/6/25 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> > From the POV of developers, the only advantage I see for seeing a > window size is to test how Sugar/Activities run at different screen > sizes. But much of this can be accomplished by setting the resolution > of the full-screen X display, so I would argue it is not a priority. > > regards. > > -walter > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarv...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > with sugar-emulator we used to run by default in a window. These days > > sugar-runner defaults to full screen but it's still possible to make it > use > > a window by setting the resolution preference. > > > > I would like to understand how badly it would affect people if we only > > allowed to run in fullscreen. Are you using the resolution preference? > Would > > it be a major problem if it went away? > > > > The issue is that at the moment there is no good solution for nesting X > > inside X. Xephyr is buggy and pretty much unmaintained, and it's now > > crashing at startup on unstable Ubuntu. Xvnc might be an alternative but > > last time I tried it was also crashy, it would be a bit complicated to > setup > > and it won't allow us to test hardware acceleration if we need that in > the > > future. > > > > Always running a full X session would probably simplify and make > > sugar-runner more solid. There are challenges with that approach too with > > systemd, but I believe those might be solvable. > > > > I'm probably not going to do anything about this until it becomes a > problem > > for sugar-build officially supported distros, but I'm thinking about the > > issue and I'm interested in people feedback. > > > > -- > > Daniel Narvaez > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- .. manuq ..
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