[PlanetCCRMA] .desktop files startup notification

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Feb 17 15:59:00 2004


On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:47:50PM -0800, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> I am not sure if I understand... this is so that an application launched
> from a menu gets the "starting x" slot in the launcher and the hourglass
> cursor?

I havent seen "starting x", but it sets the cursor to an hourglass.

Its not relevant for small things, but its reassuring for things like
ardour that can take a while to start.

Its specified here:
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-0.1.txt

- Steve