[sugar] Sugar\Windows won't ship

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>  On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 10:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
>  > I must have missed the post you refer to. It has never been the
>  > position of the core Sugar team--that I am aware of--to preclude the
>  > running of standard Linux apps. We even went so far as to hire a
>  > contractor to look at various ways to facilitate the running of
>  > standard X apps last summer---although that work was never completed
>  > or brought into the main branch.
>  >
>
>  Matthew Allum thinks we're best off not trying to force-fit this into
>  matchbox (the window manager we're currently using), having done the
>  experiment last summer.  He's not only the "contractor", but also the
>  original author of matchbox; so I think we should respect his opinion in
>  this matter.
>
>  We'll investigate alternative window managers, rather than flogging this
>  horse, which is clearly dead for our purposes. Many of the modern ones
>  honor full screen hints, and I've never seen Sugar's UI do much that
>  isn't supported one way or the other by the ICCCM/EWMH's. It may take a
>  bit of sugar work, but I'd be surprised it will be difficult.

If someone would like to go ahead and try replacing matchbox with
metacity, would be great ;)

Thanks,

Tomeu