On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:30 +0200, Bobby Powers wrote: > > The way I see it it is somewhat of a two way street. Personally, if > I'm going to run Sugar apps in Gnome I would prefer them to integrate > nicely with my other apps, just as I would prefer apps running in > Sugar to be 'sugary'. In this case the burdon falls on the shoulders > of the activity developers.
No, not in the X architecture. Most of this can/should/will be hidden in Sugar's libraries and window managers. > >From what I understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong!) Abiword > is a good example - the text editor canvas is encapsolated as its own > widget, and both the Gnome Abiword and the sugar activity use it in > their respective user interfaces. So nice modular UI code should make > maintaing a Gnome and a Sugar version of a program relatively > painless. Again, please correct me if I'm wrong - I've been planning > out what I want to do with a new activity and this is what I seem to > have arrived at, if peoples experiences are different it could save me > some headache... > > As for the sharing stuff, I know you can download and use the > telepathy libs, but would you also need a presence service running? > Could this be automatically started when an app wants to collaborate, > or is it something that would have to be running in the background > beforehand? Either is possible. - Jim -- Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel