[Bug 6334] support the fd.o startup notification spec better

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6334

Damjan Jovanovic  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
          Component|-unknown                    |programs
     Ever Confirmed|0                           |1
            Summary|egg timer needed to know if |support the fd.o startup
                   |double click and not crashed|notification spec better

--- Comment #2 from Damjan Jovanovic   2008-12-28 05:43:24 ---
Confirming and changing summary, component.

We've had winemenubuilder add a "StartupWMClass=Wine" entry to .desktop files
it generates for a while now (I wrote that patch). This should turn the mouse
cursor to an hourglass and make a "Starting ..." tab on your window list until
the application opens a window.

.desktop entries made by very old (long before 1.0) versions of Wine won't have
this entry, so you should reinstall the application with a recent version of
Wine.

Testing done on Ubuntu 8.10 with Gnome 2.24.1 and a Wine git just after 1.1.10
compiled from source.

* When you start an application from the menus it works.

* It doesn't work when you double-click on an .EXE from nautilus, even with the
"StartupWMClass=Wine" key in wine.desktop.

* It doesn't work for .desktop files on the Desktop either, only those in the
menus. Even if you copy a .desktop entry from the menus to the Desktop, it
still doesn't work.

Maybe we need to support the full startup notification spec
(http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec) but it's long and
seems unnecessary.

I'll try do some investigating, the missing functionality seems more due to
Ubuntu/Gnome bugs than Wine.