New dependency in Fedora 8 - metacity

[Adam Jackson]

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