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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: startup notification
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-15 1:41:14
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On Thursday 14 June 2001 06:09 pm, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there are still serious issues with the startup notification. just try
> "properties" on the virtual-desktop-switching kicker applet and you get
> another never-disappearing startup notification.
>
> Can we at least lower the default timeout to something more reasonable,
> like 10 seconds or so ? its annoying like hell having this thing at the
> cursor blinking like mad for a minute or so as soon as you start an
> application.

Does the following patch help? It disables startup notification for 
"Services" by default. (For "Applications" they are enabled by default, as is 
now the case).

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
bastian@kde.org | SuSE Labs KDE Developer | bastian@suse.com

["kservice.diff" (text/plain)]

Index: kservice.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdelibs/kio/kservice.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.98
diff -u -3 -d -p -r1.98 kservice.cpp
--- kservice.cpp	2001/05/26 02:59:27	1.98
+++ kservice.cpp	2001/06/15 01:41:00
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ KService::init( KDesktopFile *config )
   entryMap.remove("Path");
   m_strComment = config->readEntry( "Comment" );
   entryMap.remove("Comment");
-  m_mapNotify = config->readBoolEntry( "MapNotify", true );
+  m_mapNotify = config->readBoolEntry( "MapNotify", (m_strType == "Application") );
   entryMap.remove("MapNotify");
   m_lstKeywords = config->readListEntry("Keywords");
   entryMap.remove("Keywords");


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