Luca Capello wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:47:31 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: >>> >From 1d74bb83dac1fc1d852bc3165f3265d548d49842 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Steffen Moeller <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:27:58 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] Allowing another (more user-friendly) window manager than >> the default zhone-only user interface. > > I strongly object to this new variable, read below for the reasons. > >> +WINDOW_MANAGER=${WINDOW_MANAGER:-zhone} > [...] >> + WINDOW_MANAGER the presentation of the phone to the user. The default is >> + to just use the 'zhone' (phone) application. >> Alternatively, >> + 'fbpanel' is a tiny but usable window manager. > > There is a misunderstanding here: Zhone is not a window manager, but a > phone application. The window manager now installed by default is > Matchbox [1], which IMHO is working great and is probably the best > solution for embedded devices. > > [1] http://matchbox-project.org/
I read through it. It is far more capable than I thought. When I start, I only get into the zhone multi-application directly and cannot start anything else. I had thought that fbpanel was the way out. But it seems like I need to read some more about how matchbox is configured. Apparently what I missed was the mb-applet-menu-launcher (http://matchbox-project.org/documentation/manual/panel.html section 4.2.1). > Thus, what you want to change is the desktop panel, however: > > 1) we should provide a *default* installation, then if people want to > customize it they are free, but giving more options reduce > consistency between default installations agreed. In a separate thread I suggest to discuss a series of core functionalities and applications that should appear in the default installation. > 2) we should install the panel which requires the least disk space and > provides the best default options Just forget about this patch. Many thanks for your overview on alternatives. This was truly impresssive. Steffen _______________________________________________ pkg-fso-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fso-maint
