On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> The principal goal of this discussion is to make the X Activity >>>> unnecessary by moving that functionality into Sugar's window management. > >> what percentage of "legacy" applications are multiwindow? If it is a small >> percentage, then maybe we shouldn't be so focused on their support at >> the expense of the simplicity we are striving for in the whole. > > I believe there are two separate subjects here. > > One is: _Given_ multiwindows, what is a good (for the Sugar USER) > way to support them while keeping Sugar "simple"? For myself, if I > have the facilities to navigate between multiwindows (e.g., with > alt-tab), I'm satisfied. [The role Frame plays with multiwindows > *does* need to be worked out - at the least, gray circles should not > be left behind.] > > > The other is: Provide an easy-for-applications-to-use framework for > adapting how non-Sugar APPLICATIONS can run on that "simple" Sugar > core. This transformation may involve "sugarization", or the X > activity, or the command line, or whatever. [And not just "legacy" > applications will be multiwindow, but also non-Sugar applications > yet-to-be-developed.] > > > Just like effort is being devoted towards enhancing Sugar > __development__ where a single platform would be limiting, effort > ought to be devoted towards emulating application __execution__ > requirements -- where Sugar's existing window design would be limiting. > > I am not familiar with the X activity, but enhancing it to be the > "intermediary" which converts windowing as requested by many types > of non-Sugar applications into windowing as provided by Sugar -- > that ought to be easier to do than to individually "massage" each > such application to make it fit Sugar directly. [Put any complexity > into the "intermediary"; keep Sugar "simple".] > > mikus > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > Sugar@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >
Put any complexity into the "intermediary"; keep Sugar "simple". +1 -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar