Desktop app maintainers: Please check for StartupNotify=true

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 20:20:24 UTC 2010


On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:37:24 -0400, Colin wrote:

> However for startup notification to work, for compatibility reasons,
> the upstream .desktop file must have StartupNotify=true.  It's come to
> my attention that a lot of .desktop files are missing this, even
> though they use GTK+. 

Hmmm, I'm certain we've had this in the guidelines (or in the Wiki or in
the old QA Checklist) several years ago, including help on how to
determine the StartupWMClass= name if necessary.

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.


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