Re: Application launch detection

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Peter Astrand <astrand lysator liu se> writes: 
> I haven't understood how a toolkit-based implementation would work. (Sorry
> if you have already has explained it, I may have missed some mails). Is
> the idea to add some code to gtk_init() or similiar? This would suffer
> from the same problem as Owen mentioned above: Apps can do gtk_init() and
> then wait forever before actually showing the windows. 
>

Toolkits would set the property or send a message when a window is
shown. Toolkits have higher-level information about the appropriate
place to do this and what windows to do it for than Xlib does.
 
> Yes, I'm interested (but as always, I'm not sure about how much time I can
> spend on this). I also think Mary Dwyer can help us. 
> 

Excellent. You guys can be the "GNOME 1.4 App Startup Progress Task
Force" ;-)

Havoc