Re: [Audacity-devel] [PATCH] Enable Startup Notifications in audacity.desktop

[Gale A. <ga...@au...>]

| From Richard Ash <ri...@au...> 
| Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:45:10 +0000
| Subject: [Audacity-devel] [PATCH] Enable Startup Notifications in audacity.desktop
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:38:07 +0100
> Michael Stapelberg <mic...@st...> wrote:
> > I recently noticed that audacity sets StartupNotify=false in
> > audacity.desktop:
> > 
> > https://code.google.com/p/audacity/source/browse/audacity-src/trunk/src/audacity.desktop.in
> > 
> > I think this is a mistake (or not up-to-date anymore), because
> > audacity supports startup notifications just fine (AFAICT):
> [...]
> > So, attached you can find a patch which just removes that line.
>  
> I don't run a desktop environment which implements startup
> notifications. Can someone else check this is good so I can commit it?
> 
> AFAICT the actual support is in GTK, which we get via wxGTK, but I
> can't actually find any documentation which says this.
> 
> If we ever implemented multiple-file opens via interprocess
> communication as on Mac OS we would need to re-visit this, but for now
> it looks fine in theory to me.
> 
> Richard

GNOME apparently supports Startup Notifications but recommends
explicitly adding StartupNotify=true as per 
http://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/stable/startup-notification.html.en .

On Ubuntu I have gnome-session-fallback (as I refuse to tolerate
Unity) but I have never seen startup notifications in the panel and 
cursor in any app. 

For me, neither removing StartupNotify=false or making it true gives
any startup notification on launch of Audacity.  



Gale