Looks like a good tool, but before we drop sugar-emulator, please give us time to use both tools, compare, and see what is working and what not. By example, setting the scale is a feature (not a bug) :) sugar-build is great improvement over what we had before, but in the process we had a few disruptions by changes and at times we loose hours building and rebuilding :) Then, a fall back solution, until we have a new tool working is a good idea. Thanks by all this work
Gonzalo On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Daniel Narvaez <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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