On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if there's only one window, and it's "stretchable", then your > decision is easy. > If it requests a fixed size, then you should probably decorate and > float all the windows. I could also see floating all fixed size > windows and tiling all "stretchable" windows -- that would make the > 'gimp' work nicely; all the palettes would be floating and all the > drawings would be tiled. And that's using only the "stretchable" > hint. =) > > I'm not entirely opposed to adding new hints for oddball apps, but I'd > like 99% of apps to work as-is, and from my review of the wms out > there, it seems quite plausible that we can do this. > > FWIW, the wm itself can add hints based on window class for outliers, > without requiring the outliers themselves to be changed.
I see you mention three window managers on your page (including metacity). It would nice to see a quick analysis of their strengths/weaknesses for our use case... If we go with this approach, Sugar itself is likely to require small or no changes and I can just let you and Sayamindu deal with all of it :) Marco _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel