On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 03:07:58PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > 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.)
Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for managing mimetype associations and installing activities? Erik _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
