On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >a) applications like firefox will need to be modified so that they set >the _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_APPLICATION hint (ideally we would like to run >the applications unmodified).
The idea would be that applications would just these this hint upstream, if they are designed in a way that makes them compatible with running "fullscreen". > b) one of the major reasons why we can do away with the decorations in > case of sugar activities is that they are designed to work well > without decorations (eg: a large close button on the window itself). > otoh, most desktop applications do not have this, and the close button > is usually somewhere hidden in the menu. In some cases the close > button may not be accessible at all (eg: a rogue popup in firefox > which somehow circumvents the popup blocker and disables the menubar). > Note that this is a problem with the existing Firefox activity as > well. We might actually move the close button into the frame in one of the next release... (Don't take this as arguing for the approach _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_APPLICATION, it's tricky, I'm not sure what's better really.) Marco _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
