On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I spent some time trying to nail down the concrete changes we will need to > properly support standard desktop applications in Sugar 0.84. Here are some > notes. It's *not* a huge amount of work and I think we should really do it. > > > 1 sugar.graphics.icon needs support for pixbufs #8661. > > 2 jarabe.model.shell should use a SnMonitor instead of dbus to listen for > startup notifications. > > 3 sugar.activity.activityfactory should use SnLauncher to notify startup > instead of a dbus call to shell. I don't think it's worth to use > GdkAppLaunchContext yet. It's just a tiny layer over libsn and it would > introduce a strong dependency on gtk 2.14/glib 2.18. Furthermore we will > need to interface directly with libsn for the Monitor anyway. > > 4 jarabe.model.shell.Activity should provide the icon as a pixbuf instead of > a path (or maybe additionally). > > 5 sugar.graphics.icon shoud be able to xo-color pixbufs. We can specify two > conventional colors (+ transparency) and replace them with the xo colors > (only when there are not other colors in the pixbuf. > > 6 jarabe.model.shell.Activity should provide his icon on the base of WM_ICON > and SnMonitor::icon_name. > > 7 The activity_id X property on the activity window should be completely > optional, unless the activity supports collaboration. > > 8 sugar.activity should set WM_ICON instead of the bundle_id X property. > > 9 jarabe.* should not use the bundle_id X property. > > 10 jarabe.desktop.activitieslist and jarabe.desktop.favorites view should > additionally look into /usr/share/applications/*.desktop. We might want to > use gio + GdkAppLaunchContext here and degrade gracefully on systems with > gtk < 2.14. > > 11 replace matchbox with a more traditional desktop window manager, with the > ability to fullscreen windows when appropriate. > > > Sayamindu provided a patch for 1 which I'm going to review asap. I should be > able to work on 2 - 9 but I'd really appreciate help with some of these > (Sayamindu?). I'd like someone else to take care of 10 - 11 (Scott? > Sayamindu?). >
I'm taking up 10, 4 and 6 to begin with - will take up more if and when needed. Thanks, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
