On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:39 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 11:16 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 10:18 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 10:33 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
We could depend on gnome-wm instead, but that isn't likely to make anyone happier than just requiring metacity. Or we could require miniwm from anaconda, which isn't actually a terrible idea, but you'd have to change the anaconda packaging first because you probably don't want to drag in all of anaconda at runtime.
Only if someone else is willing to own mini-wm :-) It has some ... "interesting" focus behaviors from time to time. With only one app running, the effect is minimized but they still pop up from time to time and lead to some fun.
I don't have strong feelings one way or the other. If it were up to me metacity would simply be non-optional for Fedora.
But if you wanted to subpackage mini-wm and fix firstboot, I'd fix s-c-d and occasionally look at the bugs for the subpackage. And I'm happy to tell people that it's not a real wm.
Why not use matchbox-window-manager? It is already in koji for use in olpc and works great for full-screen single windows.
It seems to not exist in the F-8 or devel branches in cvs? Weird. (It exists, there's just no specfile.)
If we do that I'd prefer to see matchbox used in anaconda as well and mini-wm destroyed entirely. The fewer window managers the better, and the less code in anaconda proper the better.
- ajax