On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Erik Garrison wrote: > | On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:16:07AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > | Given the quantity of free software available for Linux distributions > | relative to the quantity of available sugarized applications, I believe > | that repeats of this pattern will be inevitable. > > I am not so sure. Given the tremendous amount of crappy duplicate > software, I suspect that we only need to execute a handful of ports to > achieve complete functionality. Conversely, there is no good Free video > editor for Linux, easy 3D modeler, numerical analysis environment .... so > in many cases, there's simply nothing to port. > > | As I understand, there are a variety of problems with the use of > | unsugarized applications: > | > | - UI issues because of high screen dpi and small size. > | - Journal integration. > | - Resource utilization. > | - Bitfröst and security concerns. > | - Collaboration. > | > | I expect there are others and would be happy to know them so that I > | better understand this problem. > > The biggest one, much higher on my list than any of the above, is > incompatibility with the Activity launching mechanism and window manager. > ~ Because of this issue, standard X/Linux applications that have been > correctly repackaged as .xo bundles won't even start. It appears that > switching to the Freedesktop.org startup notification system and a > modified metacity window manager may be able to resolve this. >
Could you point me towards such a .xo bundle ? I will love to test it out against a modified metacity based sugar environment. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar