I am trying to port the GPE apps to MeeGo (mainly for my own use, as I maintain these apps in Maemo, but it is also a learning experience and others may find them useful). These are GTK-based apps.
So far, I have got gpe-filemanager (a simple GPE app) working in the Netbook SDK environment. The first thing I have noticed is that it comes up in a relatively small window, with no window manager decoration except a title and a Close button (and a small window border which cannot be grabbed). There is no way to change the window size, maximise, minimise, etc. I think the MeeGo UI model seems to be that every application is maximised. I had assumed the WM would either do that or provide buttons for the user to request it. Should I be doing that myself in my app (i.e. explicitly maximising it on startup). Or should I submit a bug report on the WM that it isn't maximising my app (by the way, at some point during the usage of the app it does suddenly decide to maximise it --- I haven't worked out what is going on yet)? By the way, any suggestions for how the app works out it is running in an environment where it should start out maximised (or any other MeeGo specific actions)? Of course, I can just add some conditional code and create a configure option but it would be nicer if it could work it out for itself. Graham P.S, In case it isn't obvious, and you aren't familiar with the dumb questions I have previously asked in the Maemo world, I am not a GUI guy -- I am much happier with kernel code. But I am learning more than I ever thought I would about GUIs! _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
