Re: [Usability] visiual feedback while starting

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:55:24 +0100 (CET), Reinout van Schouwen
<reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> > Ah... part of this could just be an error in their .desktop files
> > then, they need to include the line "StartupNotify=true" for the
> > feedback to happen.
> 
> That's weird. Why isn't it designed so that they'd have to include a
> line "StartupNotify=false" if they *didn't* want feedback to be given??

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-December/msg00060.html

Personally, though, I'm wondering if it makes sense now that we've had
a "transition period" to switch the default and force all those old
(*cough* broken *cough*) apps to have a modified .desktop file. 
Especially since not using startup-notification will break
focus-stealing-prevention (well, "will render it ineffective for a
single mapping", but close enough)...

Havoc?