Note I understand that metacity can be configured to use a dbus/gconf version, rather than bringing in the dread CORBA/bonobo dependencies we've worked so hard to avoid. So don't let ldd mislead you that it isn't worth a try; it is.
So Metacity is clearly one of the contenders. This wasn't an option when Sugar was started, though with 20-20 hindsight, we probably should have used something other than matchbox from the beginning. - Jim On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:32 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: > > > I must have missed the post you refer to. It has never been the > > > position of the core Sugar team--that I am aware of--to preclude the > > > running of standard Linux apps. We even went so far as to hire a > > > contractor to look at various ways to facilitate the running of > > > standard X apps last summer---although that work was never completed > > > or brought into the main branch. > > > > > > > Matthew Allum thinks we're best off not trying to force-fit this into > > matchbox (the window manager we're currently using), having done the > > experiment last summer. He's not only the "contractor", but also the > > original author of matchbox; so I think we should respect his opinion in > > this matter. > > > > We'll investigate alternative window managers, rather than flogging this > > horse, which is clearly dead for our purposes. Many of the modern ones > > honor full screen hints, and I've never seen Sugar's UI do much that > > isn't supported one way or the other by the ICCCM/EWMH's. It may take a > > bit of sugar work, but I'd be surprised it will be difficult. > > If someone would like to go ahead and try replacing matchbox with > metacity, would be great ;) > > Thanks, > > Tomeu -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar