Desktop app maintainers: Please check for StartupNotify=true

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 15 March 2010 15:07, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Chen Lei <supercyper at 163.com> wrote:
>> Should we also add  StartupWMClass=someting if StartupNotify=true doesn't
>> work?
>
> You're going to need to elaborate on "doesn't work".
>
> * You don't see a "Starting..." notification in the tasklist in GNOME 2?
> * You do, but it times out instead of disappearing when the app window comes up?
> * Something else?

Well, for Firefox at least, it's option 2 and has been for a while (at
least under KDE):
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445543

:),

MEF

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