Startup notification sutff

[Fabio Gomes de Souza <bugtraq gs2 com br>]

Dear friends,

	I have posted a comment on bug #107544 (regarding startup 
notification), but later I noticed that it is already marked as closed, 
so I decided to post here so see everyone's opinion.

	The bug in question regards and fixes the lack of startup notification 
support in nautilus.

	But the problem itself is that users (including me) often don't know if 
they double-clicked an icon correctly because nautilus still lacks UI 
feedback about this. So the user ends up double-clicking again and again 
and thus opening multiple items.

	Acorrding to bug #107544, startup notification in nautilus only works 
for applications that support the API and claim for support on the 
application registry. So, this does not solve the entire problem 
mentioned above. Just on some cases.

	Currently, nautilus does not provide proper feedback when you open 
things through the directory views. Not even when opening new nautilus 
windows.

	The gnome panel has a solution for the same problem: it shows a  zoom 
animation from the icon to the screen to tell users that they have 
started something, regardless of startup-notification support. I think 
the same animation could be added to nautilus without problems. This 
would improve the user experience a lot.

	Some rules would be needed for the animation. For example, 
double-clicking things that will be displayed on the same window (ie 
subdirectories, viewing files with embbeded views, etc) should not fire 
the animation. Actually, as far as I can think, the animation should be 
fired only when:
	- Running programs
		* through file associations
		* through application launchers
	- Opening new nautilus windows
		* double-clicking folders on the desktop
		* using the 'Open in new window' command

	What do you guys think about such a feature?

	Thanks for your attention,

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Fabio Gomes de Souza <fabio gs2 com br> (+55 81 9127-0597)

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