I'd like to present a few areas where sugar can "play nice with others", including: * replacing the matchbox window manager, to provide better multiple-window support for legacy apps (think of the 'gimp', running as multiple windows without one full-screen "activity area" aka "virtual desktop") * making sugar behave well when run in non-full-screen-mode under metacity. This includes refactoring home/friends/mesh view as operations on root window, so they make sense in a multiwindow setup. (It's been suggested that looking at the xpenguins code is instructive for understanding how nautilus,etc arrange their root window.) * Switch to standard freedesktop.org startup notification mechanism: ticket #5271 * Implement freedesktop.org notifications mechanism for alerts (low battery, low disk space, available software update) * Use standard fd.o notification area in frame -- I think this would also address cjb's desire to put the 'stop' button for recordmydesktop in the frame.
I don't think I will actually have time to work on many of these areas in the 9.1 time frame, so I especially encourage interested/motivated parties to make concrete proposals on pieces of this work. (Or suggest other areas we should improve.) --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar