Re: Starting an app on another workspace? [Was: GNOME 3.0 feedback and suggestions (for 3.2+)]

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

The specification that applications have to support is called startup-notification.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-latest.txt

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 15:11 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 09:00 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit :
> > Huh.  Should that work?  I'm in the activity view, so I see the tiled
> > apps of the current workstation, the left hand applications bar [what is
> > the official name of that thing] and on the right hand the tiled
> > workspaces.  I grab an app and drag it to a workspace.... and it opens
> > [starts] in the current workspace.  Is that incorrect [something isn't
> > working] or am I misunderstanding the above? [because that would be an
> > awesome feature - especially for apps that take some time to start]
> That's currently working with GTK apps, try with Nautilus for example.
> But some non-GTK apps don't support this for some reason, and there's a
> bug open for that in Bugzilla.

Yep, it appears to work for gnome-terminal and banshee.

Not working for Nautilus or Evolution (but opening nautilus and
evolution windows always seems odd if you already have an instance
open).

It doesn't work for DbVisualizer (Java app) or LibreOffice apps.

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