On So, 2010-06-13 at 11:58 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote: > 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.
http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Netbook_and_GTK may help you. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
