Re: Having applications open on the 'launcher' workspace

[Antoine Dongois <Dongois Antoine wanadoo fr>]

Well apparently from what I've been reading, and going through the code,
this should already be working, and applications should be appearing on
the workspace active at launch
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2003-May/msg00060.html,
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2002-December/msg00076.html).
Somehow it doesn't work on my Ximian unstable desktop so I have a couple
of questions:
1- What are other people seeing? on what workspace do apps launch?
2- Shouldn't all panel launchers be generating at least some basic
startup notification events (including workspace info) even if the
launchee application doesn't support it? I'm not seeing any notification
with some launchers.

Oh and when logging in as root, I'm able to launch an app on a different
workspace using test-launcher in the startup-notification CVS module.
This doesn't work otherwise.
I'd be interested in feedback/explanations on this.

Regards,
Antoine
On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:38, Antoine D wrote:
> I'm reposting this here from gnome-devel-list since I got the list
> wrong:
> 
> Hi all,
> First of all I hope this is the proper list to be discussing this. If
> not please accept my apologies and redirect me ;)
> I've been wanting to work on gnome for some time and thought I'd start
> with the one bug that keeps nagging me, mainly that applications don't
> open on the workspace that launches them (i.e.: launch
> epiphany/evolution/gnome-terminal and switch workspace, it will open on
> the current workspace). My initial guess was to fix this in metacity,
> but it seems the problem may actually be coming from the state of
> startup notification in gnome (which should be giving metacity the
> workspace information right?). I'm willing to work on this (well at
> least try) and would love some orientation. Unless this bug has been
> fixed in recent CVS?
> So basically here's my first question, what is the current state of the
> startup-notification library? How much does it currently implement of
> the preliminary draft available on freedesktop.org? More questions to
> come if what I'm saying makes any sense (it being close to 4AM in Paris
> and all).
> 
> Regards,
> Antoine
> 
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