[Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 16:33, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 22 May 2009, at 11:51, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Revisiting the topic of replacing matchbox with a more "standard"
>> window manager[1], I have just uploaded a soas2 build in which Sugar
>> uses (unmodified) metacity instead of matchbox. The image also has the
>> Gimp, xterm and gcalctool so that you can test how metacity treats
>> those normally while making activities occupy the entire screen. At
>> the moment, a few activities are getting positioned incorrectly (I'll
>> look into the activity code to figure out what's wrong),
>
> Here's a quick run through of the activities.

Thanks, Gary!

Sayamindu: have you considered moving the window management stuff from
the sugar shell to a metacity plugin?

Regards,

Tomeu

> Correctly positioned:
>
>        Memorize
>        IRC
>        InfoSlicer
>        Write
>        Chat
>        Terminal
>        Browse
>        Joke Machine
>        Poll Builder
>        Paint
>        Labyrinth
>        View Slides
>        Image Viewer
>        Jukebox
>        Read
>
> Offset, incorrectly sized and/or other related issue:
>
>        Jigsaw Puzzle
>        Moon
>        Calculate
>        Pippy
>        TurtleArt (locked up, very slow, unusable)
>        Record (main window OK but preview window ends up obscuring much of
> the UI)
>        Etoys (mainly black screen, very slow, unusable, would not fully stop)
>        FreeCell (mainly black screen, very slow, unusable, would not fully
> stop)
>        Story Builder
>        TamTamSynthLab
>        TamTamMini
>        TamTamEdit
>        Slider Puzzle
>        Cartoon Builder
>        Flipsticks
>        Develop
>        Log
>
> Watching the re-draw as things (messily) start-up, it kind'a looks
> like windows are initially opened at a mix of different sizes (some
> too small, some too large). The activity then sets-up its UI, and only
> then receive some late window manager event to go fullscreen.
> Activities that don't expect their window to be dynamically resized
> stay offset and/or incorrectly sized.
>
>> and etoys is
>> showing black screens while loading a project, but apart from those,
>> things seem to work fine. Try running gimp-2.0 or gcalctool or xterm
>> from the Terminal Activity to see how metacity takes care of
>> non-activities.
>>
>> Please test this if possible and let the mailing list know if you find
>> more issues.
>
> Here's a few more:
>
> - When activities are started you initially see a sugar-session window
> with traditional widget decoration (close/minimise/etc) and title,
> again after a few seconds delay the pulsing activity icon begins and
> then the window decorations switch off and the window re-adjusts its
> size/layout.
>
> - All activities end up with a 3-4 pixel grey boarder around their
> outer edge (Fitts's law issue as right/bottom scroll bars are no
> longer at the edge of the screen).
>
> - You can still drag a fullscreen activity window around using the top
> grey boarder.
>
> - Holding alt down and dragging, drags a fullscreen window around from
> anywhere.
>
> - A few times when clicking the grey boarders I managed to trigger the
> window manager's context palette and window resizing cursors.
>
> - Watch out for some window manager shortcut keys Alt+F9, Alt+F7, Alt
> +F8, Alt+F4.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> The relevant trac ticket is
>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/602
>>
>> The ISO can be downloaded from:
>> http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/isos/Soas2-200905212052_sayamindu_metacity.iso
>>
>> You can test the image with qemu (or qemu-kvm) with the following
>> command:
>>
>> sudo qemu-kvm -cdrom Soas2-200905212052_sayamindu_metacity.iso -boot
>> d -m 1024M
>>
>> (adjust the value of the -m option based on the amount of RAM you have
>> in your system, and if you do not have qemu-kvm, you can try to run it
>> with qemu)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>>
>>
>> [1] http://erikos.sweettimez.de/?p=678
>> --
>> Sayamindu Dasgupta
>> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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