Le mercredi 03 mars 2010, à 10:22 +0100, Lubos Lunak a écrit : > On Friday 26 of February 2010, Colin Walters wrote: > > Hi Lubos, thanks for the feedback! > > > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Lubos Lunak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What is actually supposed to be the improvement? I suppose this addition > > > might be useful, but I fail to see how it helps with tracking. > > > > There's actually two parts; I wasn't clear on this originally: > > > > * Knowing precisely what .desktop file was launched immediately (this > > is important for our UI) > > * Later when the application sends a startup completion message we > > know what X window that came from, and can then make a strong > > association between .desktop and X window. > > That says what it does, but still not why. I assume you want this for some > kind of a launcher button that will also do other things when the application > is running. But in this case that launcher already knows, and why should > others need it?
Example: + open file manager + double-click on pdf file + (mime system magic => .desktop file for an app handling pdf is found) + okular/evince/whatever gets started You might want to be able to match the window started this way with the .desktop file, but in a tasklist that doesn't live in the file manager. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
