Hello, On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Three more items I can think of: > > My take on the priorities. > >> * Switch from Matchbox to Metacity and > > Priority 2. I would love to have it but it might be too late, given > that Sayamindu experimentation run into interesting problems. >
I agree with Marco on this. At the moment, I don't think Metacity gives us anything other than whatever is given (in terms of functionality) by Matchbox. The main reason for considering a switch to Metacity is, IIRC, seamless running of stock desktop apps within Sugar, and I think we would need some more work before this can be achieved (eg: support for standard window icons in the activity list, etc). I would probably stick to Matchbox during this release cycle, and devote a complete release cycle to testing out Metacity + Sugar for finding out possible regressions and weird behaviours. The only significant advantage is composite support, my comments on that below: >> activate composition (eToys and >> Record have trouble with this). > > Priority 1. Can we actually do this given the memory constraints? > Some comments: a) Memory is a pretty significant issue. I was running a yum install gucharmap in a B4 while sugar + browse + terminal activity was running, and during the installation of the dependencies, I saw a number of "Out of memory" messages (I think they were being printed by some XML related utilities.. scrollkeeper ??) b) The compositor in metacity seems to be quite new (http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/metacity/trunk/src/compositor/compositor.c?view=log). I'm not sure what's up here, I remember seeing drooling at screencasts of a branch of metacity called luminocity around 2 years back. Maybe they have only recently started to merge stuff ? For stock builds, the compositor is disabled (via a Gconf option, though it is compiled in), so I am not very sure how stable thing thing is. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
