On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, if there's only one window, and it's "stretchable", then your >> decision is easy. >> If it requests a fixed size, then you should probably decorate and >> float all the windows. I could also see floating all fixed size >> windows and tiling all "stretchable" windows -- that would make the >> 'gimp' work nicely; all the palettes would be floating and all the >> drawings would be tiled. And that's using only the "stretchable" >> hint. =) >> >> I'm not entirely opposed to adding new hints for oddball apps, but I'd >> like 99% of apps to work as-is, and from my review of the wms out >> there, it seems quite plausible that we can do this. >> >> FWIW, the wm itself can add hints based on window class for outliers, >> without requiring the outliers themselves to be changed. > > I see you mention three window managers on your page (including > metacity). It would nice to see a quick analysis of their > strengths/weaknesses for our use case... >
Just a note that Xmonad seems to pull in 35 MBs of RPMs as dependencies. I'm not sure whether that is good for our storage space. Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar