Desktop app maintainers: Please check for StartupNotify=true

[Victor Vasilyev]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:37:24 -0400, Colin wrote:
>
> Currently can only find:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Desktop_files
>
> | Installed .desktop files MUST follow the desktop-entry-spec , paying
> | particular attention to validating correct usage of Name, GenericName,
> | Categories , StartupNotify entries.
>   
Explanation for the StartupNotify entry usage in the desktop-entry-spec 
[1] that is linked in the guidelines. Also, there are important details 
in the Startup Notification Protocol Specification [2].

[1] 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
[2] 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-latest.txt

FYI When the StartupNotify=true was specified in the desktop file of the 
NetBeans I've seen bugs in launching of the NetBeans' child processes 
(e.g FireFox [3]) due to the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment variable. It 
was fixed in the NetBeans launcher by a patch [4] according to 
recommendations of the Startup Notification Protocol Specification.

[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467546
[4] 
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/netbeans/F-13/netbeans-6.8~40-ide-launcher.patch?view=markup

Cheers,
Victor