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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: startup notification
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-06-11 22:12:47
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On Monday 11 June 2001 8:04 pm, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> Dne po 11. červen 2001 17:06 Richard Moore napsal(a):
> > Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > Dne so 9. ?erven 2001 16:57 Dirk Mueller napsal(a):
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > how long will startup notification still be broken ? what was the
> > > > reason to change the previous, mostly working behaviour ?
> > >
> > >  To make it work slighly more often than just 'mostly'. And it should
> > > be ok now, except for marking some app's .desktop files so they don't
> > > get the startup notification, and possibly some small cosmetic fixes.
> >
> > It was still dreadful yesterday - it has serious flaws with
> > non-gui apps and has trouble with kfmclient. The old code may not
>
>  Could you please be more specific and say what non-gui apps you mean? If I
> type e.g. 'ls' in minicli, startup notification appears and goes away
> almost immediately ( which I think is ok ). I also fail to see any trouble
> with kfmclient here, it seems to be ok.

Ok, I tried again and the kfmclient issue seems to be fixed now. The remaining
problem seems to be with non-gui apps that run for a long time, for example
the wvdial internet dialer.

>
> > have notified you about everything, but when it did create a startup
> > item the item would work properly.
>
>  It did not. It's just that it appeared so rarely that you haven't noticed
> that the old implementation had flaws too ( besides the most visible one,
> when it simply didn't appear at all ).

Well, I've used this code rather a lot and that last issue is the one I've 
spotted.

Rich.

>
>  Lubos Lunak
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>  l.lunak@email.cz ; l.lunak@kde.org
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