[IAEP] Running regular X11 apps

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Other than the circle icon, do you have any major issue? If it's just
>> that, adding _NET_WM_ICON support to the sugar shell should be really
>> easy.
>
> Great.
>
> BTW, the old-style bitmaps could be given the XO colors
> and then scaled.
>
>> I'm planning to work on a proper fix for the whole issue (at the
>> window management level at least) for 0.84.
>
> How will it work?
>
> Consider running one Sugar activity per virtual desktop.
> This would allow multi-window programs like the infamous
> gimp to fit in pretty well, except that of course they are
> not full-screen and thus receive window borders.
> Nobody ever sees a window border until they run something
> that isn't full-screen.
>

Not fully defined yet. Sayamindu experimented with it a bit, there are
(messy) notes on the wiki:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/WindowManagement

Your idea is interesting, I'll try to think it all through. I added it
to the wiki btw.

Thanks,
Marco