Re: libgnome-desktop API addition request

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:03:08 -0500, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> 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?

No, I was waiting for bug 150910 to be taken care of first because a
few different solutions had been bounced around over the past 5
months--there's no point trying to write a patch that would merely be
thrown out if a different gnome-desktop solution were used.  Besides,
the only new thing to notify them of is a one-liner.  The remainder of
the new nautilus patch needed is just code that's basically identical
to what's needed in 144987--I can use the same hacky workaround that I
did there, or, if someone goes through the work of fixing it correctly
(I tried once but decided to do more fun things) then I can just
mimick that in this new patch.

> > > 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.

Yes please.  And mark it as blocking bug 149028.

Thanks,
Elijah