OT: libstartup-notification?

[Enrico Tröger]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:17:19 -0500, "Erik Harrison"
<erikharrison at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Enrico Tröger wrote:
> >  > Hi,
> >  >
> >  > sorry for being off-topic but I'm not sure where to ask this and I know
> >  > some of you might be able to help me. I'll try to get it a little
> >  > on-topic :D.
> >  >
> >  > What exactly is libstartup-notification meant to be?
> >  > Is it to be used by a desktop environment(like Xfce) which calls other
> >  > applications and to get feedback about the started application?
> >  > Or is it meant to be a general interface for applications which start
> >  > other applications?
> >  > And how to use?
> >  >
> >  > The background: I was thinking of adding support for
> >  > libstartupnotification in Geany so that when a user in Xfce starts
> >  > Geany with a panel launcher or via the menu system, Xfce knows that
> >  > Geany is starting up and gives feedback to the user by changing the
> >  > mouse cursor or whatever.
> >  > My understanding of this was, that the started application(Geany) sends
> >  > a signal with libstartupnotification when it has finished starting up.
> >  > But first, I don't know how to do and I don't find any example code.
> >  > And the strange thing is, it seems already to work. When I start Geany
> >  > from the panel(I have a launcher item for it) a new window appears in
> >  > the task list only with the title "geany" and when Geany has finished
> >  > starting the title in the task bar changes to the real Geany window
> >  > title, e.g. "file - dir - Geany".
> >  > So, does startup notification already work without any need of any
> >  > action of the started app itself?
> >  > Or am I completely wrong?
> >
> >  Try adding StartupNotify=true to the app's desktop file, or just check
> >  the box in the panel launcher prefs, and see if it works.  I coulda
> >  sworn that gtk did the startup notification magic automatically now.
> 
> It does. gdk_notify_startup_complete() is automatically called when
> the first window is displayed by an application, since Gtk+2.2. Look
> at the GtkWindow class if you need to override the automagic handling.
> 
> Setting StartupNotification to True in Geany's .desktop makes
> launching Geany from the panel work as expected.
Thanks, this is what I wanted to know.

Regards,
Enrico

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