[Dextrose] Sugarizing Applications

Gonzalo Odiard gonzalo at laptop.org
Sat Sep 29 15:39:48 EDT 2012


+1

Sugarized apps are not a real solution. Use it in Gnome.
If we really need a functionality in Sugar, we should have a proper
activity to do the job.

Gonzalo

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The biggest problem I have had with sugarizing applications (e.g. Firefox)
> is that activity.py declares a top-level window. Since this is a
> requirement for every native Linux application, a second window is opened.
> This confuses the Frame in many ways.
>
> Perhaps, now we can put these activities on the Gnome desktop and use
> Sugar only for purpose built activities. This would avoid the concern about
> running activities that do not use the standard toolbars, do save documents
> or resume from the Journal or do not offer 'sharing'.
>
> Tony
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