Re: houston, we have a problem- 2.10 showstoppers

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 10:43:35 -0500, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
>
>
> > The bug we have a handle on- go elijah go!
> > 166722: gnome_url_show needs to use startup-notification and take a
> > timestamp parameter- basically, this is the 'when i open a webpage
> > from xchat, the browser never pops to the front' bug. Given how much
> > work has been put in to fix focus, we shouldn't be shipping with
> > something that affects external users so much.
>
>
> I should point out a few things here:
> (1) I think this bug can be punted, given a small change to nautilus
> and gnome-terminal to make them attempt to handle not being launched
> with startup notification--similar to what Galeon and Epiphany now do.
>
> (2) As far as I know, Mozilla and firefox are still basically broken
> in this respect and there's not a lot we can do about it; those two
> apps need to support startup-notification as launchees (including the
> timestamp part of startup notification).  Without that, there's no way
> to get them to work, whether they are launched with
> startup-notification or not.  This should probably be in the release
> notes in the known issues section.

Someone point me in the right direction, then.  I'll get this supported 
in Firefox and Mozilla upstream.