On 5/25/05, Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > My suggestion is that if you think that the notification for new gaim > messages is insufficiently obvious
<snip> > But, really, it all works perfectly for gaim as it is without any code > changes Actually, it doesn't quite work perfectly, I believe for the reason you mention (the notification for new gaim messages is totally non-obvious and gets missed by people for hours). There's a couple things we could do to fix this bug (though there are some current technical difficulties with the "most useful" one). But one of the problems is that I'm not convinced I know all the issues. Naturally, we occasionally get complaints that the-whole-system-is-broken but rarely are they accompanied with useful details (the generic complaint that "the window doesn't get focus when it's supposed to" has been tracked down to around a few dozen totally different bugs, varying from case to case). If I could get detailed explanations of what is happening that people don't like, I can often find bugs and fix them. But anyway, were' now off-topic for this list. I'd really like for some gaim developer(s) to file a bug against metacity (even if turns out it's a problem with other modules as well, like libwnck) and state the exact behaviors (with steps to reproduce) that they see and don't like. <snip> > The only case where an application needs to worry about any > of this is when it launches new windows by communication out-of-process. Actually, there's one other case--if an application launches a window that was due to a not-so-recent user interaction with that application, then it also needs to do a little work. But that's rare (there's only case I can think of for this--a user trying to open a web page in one tab of a browser, switching to another tab and doing stuff, and then getting an error message that the page in the first tab couldn't be loaded). Cheers, Elijah _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list
