Desktop app maintainers: Please check for StartupNotify=true

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Sun Mar 14 21:40:15 UTC 2010


On Sunday 14 March 2010, Colin Walters wrote:

> If you maintain a desktop app, please check for StartupNotify=true,
> and if your app uses GTK+ or Qt, then please submit a patch *upstream*
> to add it, and at your option apply that patch in Fedora.

If an app uses GTK+ or Qt, does that alone always imply that it satisfies the 
desktop entry spec's requirements for StartupNotify=true, i.e. no further 
examination of the app's behavior is necessary?

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html

"If true, it is KNOWN that the application will send a "remove" message when 
started with the DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID environment variable set."


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