Re: [Usability] Bug: Applications appearing on other desktops than started

[Alexey Rusakov <ktirf users sf net>]

Martin Ejdestig пишет:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:37 +0400, Alexey Rusakov wrote:
> > Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > > I'm using 4 virtual desktops (if this is not the correct term, please
> > > let  me know) in my Gnome 2.14. When I start an application in one
> > > desktop, it takes some time to start the application and in the
> > > meantime, I switch to another desktop, the application will start
> > > on that different desktop and I have to manually move it back.
> > >
> > > This gets especially annoying if the application issues some dialogs
> > > before it actually starts (like galeon after-crash dialog, which I see
> > > quite regularly by the way) and the application doesn't appear, so
> > > I have to go through my desktops and look for the lost dialog to click
> > > ok...
> > I don't think it's so obvious. What about looking through my desktops, 
> > because I launched Galeon on one of them (forgot, on which one) and then 
> > immediately moved to to another desktop? If "the bug" gets fixed, the 
> > after-crash dialog will appear on the desktop, on which I no more look.
>
> There are hints that can be set so that windows appear flashing in the
> window list even if they aren't on the same workspace as the one you're
> currently viewing.
>
> (E.g. chat windows in Gossip located on another workspace does this if
> something is said. When you click it in the window list, you are brought
> to the correct workspace.)
>
> That's how it should work. It shouldn't disrupt your work by putting a
> dialog smack in the middle of your face. That's a bug.
Agreed. Combined with startup notification mechanism, Hynek's proposal 
certainly makes sense. And it's not a feature of an application, it should 
be a feature of gnome-session, I believe.

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  Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov