[IAEP] Running regular X11 apps

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:31 AM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:12 AM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking for the cheap wins first ;-)
>>>>
>>>> when people talk about different desktops, doesn't this also imply
>>>> different
>>>> window managers for each one? if this is the case, then it should be
>>>> fairly
>>>> simple to define a window manager that defaults to opening the app
>>>> fullscreen and has minimal (or non-existant) decorations on the window.
>>>
>>> Nope, there would still be a single window manager.
>>>
>>>> this wouldn't require changing any code on any apps, just selecting the
>>>> right window manager for that desktop (if the app never opens secondary
>>>> windows it doesn't need any decorations, if it does, it may need some or
>>>> all
>>>> of the traditional decorations)
>>>
>>> There are ways we can implement different behavior for different
>>> windows (for example the maximus approach could be extended to do so).
>>> The problem is, how do we know which windows should be displayed
>>> fullscreen (say the firefox or the gedit one) and which not (the
>>> gimp)? afaik there is no window hint which could help us there...
>>
>> I don't know of any hints that would provide a concete answer, but i can
>> think of several things off the top of my head that could be used as
>> heristics.
>
> Yeah maybe we can come up with some heuristic that works...
>
> The only real application that I know would cause us problems here is
> the gimp, does anyone have examples of other applications with an
> usual windows model?
>


Dia - at least the last time I checked.
Thanks,
Sayamindu



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