Please have a look at http://www.gimpshop.com/
which corrals the gimp windows to have a more wm friendly face. On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The X Activity is pretty straight forward. But it does not integrate > the Sugar copy/paste/theming etc. The point of my question was not so > much to question those goals as much as to ask if we have data re what > percentage of "legacy" applications are multiwindow? If it is a small > percentage, then maybe we shouldn't be so focused on their support at > the expense of the simplicity we are striving for in the whole. Again, > as useful as The Gimp is, it is a mess with any WM, so we should be > wary of it skewing the rest of the discussion. > > -walter > > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Walter Bender wrote: > > | (I run SKYPE in Bert's X Activity > > | without a problem.) > > > > The principle goal of this discussion is to make the X Activity > > unnecessary by moving that functionality into Sugar's window management. > > Possible motivations for this include: more seamless integration with > > legacy apps, lower overhead when running legacy apps, easier installation > > of legacy apps. > > > > Personally, I have not used the X Activity, and so I don't actually know > > what its overheads are, how difficult it is to set up with a new > > application, or how well it integrates with Sugar (e.g. copy/paste, > > localization, theming). > > > > - --Ben > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjWcE8ACgkQUJT6e6HFtqQ0BgCfU7jUQvLwJ1ZLM3QpM1T8aV3O > > buIAn2nkv5tIoqYuzsL3KSp+phgwE/1W > > =qs6X > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- "The water won't clear up 'til we get the hogs out of the creek." -- Jim Hightower
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