Re: libgnome-desktop API addition request

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:45:38 -0700, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:18:34 -0500, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > With my QA hat on, when do you expect the changes to the other modules to land?
> 
> Within a couple days probably.  For all but nautilus, it's merely a
> one-line addition.  (Call this new function just before calling
> gnome_desktop_item_launch_*).  May even be good for someone from
> gnome-love.  :)  Nautilus needs a little bit bigger changes, though
> it's the same as what's needed in bug 144987.  (Yes, I think it's
> weird that nautilus handles its own startup notification launching for
> some things, and has gnome-desktop do it for other things)

Have we spoken with Alex, Martin, or Dave about it?
 
> > And with my general purpose hat on- will this make a gnome-open fix
> > possible as well? I just noticed that that is busted as well, but
> > doesn't seem to be in your list of things that will be impacted by
> > this.
> 
> Oh, crap.  Crispin mentioned this about 5-6 months ago, but I totally
> forgot about it.  Of course, I wonder how big a problem it is
> considering that no one has filed any bug report on it that I've seen
> (and I believe I've seen all the focus issue bugs)...

I can file one if you want ;) That's probably a sign we're not using
it enough places, but I've noticed it with both xchat and gaim in the
past few days.

Luis