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What Would Ubuntu Do?

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::::: Modified metacity to make each toplevel window fullscreen (undecorated + maximized). It works for all the activities as well as standard GUI apps (eg: gedit, gcalctool, etc). Only application which was a pain to use was GIMP, due to its use of the SDI paradigm. [[User:SayaminduDasgupta|SayaminduDasgupta]]

:::::: I managed to compositing [http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/sugar_metacity/composited_sugar.png working] also [[User:SayaminduDasgupta|SayaminduDasgupta]]

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:: Here's what Ubuntu Netbook Remix is doing: "The permanently-maximized window state is handled by a program called Maximus that runs silently in the background. The Remix environment is still using the regular old Metacity window manager." -- http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080604-hands-on-with-the-ubuntu-netbook-remix.html - the code is at https://code.launchpad.net/~netbook-remix-team/netbook-remix/maximus "Although the windowing model is good for devices with small screens and the implementation is clever, the Maximus program is still a bit of a hack and doesn't really work well in certain corner cases. The most visible place where it breaks down is when testing The GIMP, which uses floating palettes. These get maximized and overlap each other, obscuring the main program content and making it impossible to use. Those kinds of bugs will have to be worked out before the software is ready for widespread adoption." --[[User:Morgs|Morgs]] 10:34, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

# Support standard window icons in the frame activity list.

## TBD

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