[Sugar-devel] Sugar with Metacity (again)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 21:30, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps Maximus from Ubuntu netbook remix may help with emulating
> matchbox behaviour? https://launchpad.net/maximus

We have a trade-off to take into account here between memory usage of
maximus and the cost of implementation and maintenance of this job.
Depending on that, would be better to duplicate this functionality
inside the shell process.

Regards,

Tomeu

> I don't really have a say in this, but I'd go for EWMH compliance.
> Even Compiz could be used in XO 1.5, since it has some 3D support.
>
> 2009/5/23 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
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>> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>>On 05/23/09 19:16, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>>> I couldn't get this to boot, it hangs some time after the grub menu.
>>>> But it might be because qemu is broken in Fedora 11.
>>>
>>>Oh, wait!  It was just damn slow because I wasn't using kvm
>>>(permissions issue).
>>>
>>>Now I could test it, and it looks good, modulo the bugs that Tomeu and
>>>Gary reported.  TurtleArt would work for me, but the window was
>>>mispositioned.
>>>
>>>I'd say: let's switch early in the 0.86 release cycle, as soon as we've
>>>shaked the major bugs, so activity maintainers have time to fix the
>>>remaining issues in their code.
>>
>> Do you really mean to say that switching window manager should be done
>> in a stable environment?  Or did you mean to suggest swtiching early
>> _after_ the 0.86 release?
>>
>>
>>
>>>The only thing I didn't like very much is memory usage: 21MB VIRT, 10MB
>>>RSS.  But I suppose we can't do much about it.
>>
>> Is the purpose to switch from one specific window manager to another
>> specific one, or to move towards working properly with any
>> EWMH-compliant window manager (and just picking one of them by default)?
>>
>> GNOME can work with different window managers too, even if it ships with
>> this one as default.
>>
>>
>>  - Jonas
>>
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