Hello, after we branch, I propose we drop the emulator code from sugar in favor of a separate module, sugar-runner.
In terms of features the advantages of sugar-runner are: * It can run inside another X session (with Xephyr like sugar-emulator), inside a full independent X session and headless, inside Xvfb. * It works around Xephyr issues like international keyboards and multiple outputs. * It's better tested with recent sugar code and recent distributions. * It tries to be helpful. For example it offers to tweak Xwrapper.config where necessary. * It's integrated with sugar-build and at the same time it can run the sugar instance installed in the system. * It's a separate module which I think make sense here because most users will never run this code and it's largely a collection of hacks which are not necessary when running as a normal desktop environment. * From a quick read of the sugar-emulator code I don't see anything missing, except maybe the ability to specify a scaling. I could easily add it but... that thing should disapper from sugar anyway! The code is here: http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-runner/sugar-runner/trees/master There is not that much of it, all python with a few C helpers (accessed by introspection) where I couldn't avoid it. -- Daniel Narvaez _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
