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 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") > * 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 suggested that looking at the xpenguins code is instructive > for understanding how nautilus,etc arrange their root window.) > * Switch to standard freedesktop.org startup notification mechanism: > ticket #5271 > * Implement freedesktop.org notifications mechanism for alerts (low > battery, low disk space, available software update) > * Use standard fd.o notification area in frame -- I think this would > also address cjb's desire to put the 'stop' button for recordmydesktop > in the frame. > > I don't think I will actually have time to work on many of these areas > in the 9.1 time frame, so I especially encourage interested/motivated > parties to make concrete proposals on pieces of this work. (Or > suggest other areas we should improve.) > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar