[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> of an issue than resolving incompatibilities between libraries (The
> Gimp pulls in all sorts of stuff and Inkscape tries to pull in
> incompatible libraries, such as an old version of poppler),

No longer the case.

> incompatibilities with where we'd like applications to write data (The
> Gimp will stomp all over the filesystem), moving data to and from the
> Journal (how do I open an image I took with Record in The Gimp? or use
> a picture I edited with The Gimp in Memorize)? The fact that The Gimp

See the thread I've started on resolving these issues.

> uses lots of little auxiliary windows is easily dealt with in, for
> example, the X Activity. Making this seamless in Sugar seems, IMHO, a
> relatively low priority relative to these other inconsistencies.

In my opinion, fixing the barriers that prevent developers from
dogfooding sugar is of high importance.
 --scott

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