Re: Dash Favorite Icons and Running Applications

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Patrick Michael Niedzielski
<patrickniedzielski gmail com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Could someone point me to documentation describing how GNOME Shell
> detects which applications are running in the dash (or the file that has
> this code, if no documentation exists)?

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/ApplicationBased

> Certain applications, such as
> Emacs, open new icons even when they are favorites.  I'd like to see if
> I can fix this for certain apps (maybe even just a whitelist on my own
> system).

I just landed code which should handle a lot more cases like this
without requiring applications to be modified.  It is however, best
for the application to be updated.