New dependency in Fedora 8 - metacity

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Nov 26 15:18:18 UTC 2007


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.

Jeremy




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