Re: jwz's run once hack

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> writes: 
> Single launch buttons (the runonce idea) and launch feedback (the
> Xalf idea) are separate issues. You would still want launch feedback
> when you click an application icon for the first time, for instance.
> 

What xalf and this runonce thing have in common is that they are both
bad hacks that fail to work a noticeable percentage of the time. ;-)
And man is it annoying when they don't...

If we want to get this stuff working we need to just spec out a
protocol, then add support for it to the widget toolkits, and to the
XFree X clients, and stop trying to make magic guesses...

Havoc