New dependency in Fedora 8 - metacity

[Jon Nettleton]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 13:00 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> 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.
> 

That all sounds perfect to me.  

Matchbox-Window-Manager

* for installs and standalone X apps. I also have a Fedora Tablet spin I
put together for a client's Samsung Q1 that uses this ;-)  

Metacity

* maybe with new non OpenGL composite support back in it?

Compiz-Fusion

*For people that like to play with their windows instead of doing work.

KDE???  I have no idea.

Jon