Re: developers, maintainers: Please add a startup notify line to your desktop.in files!

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:24:06PM +0000, Gustavo J. A. M.  Carneiro wrote: 
>   What kind of operating system support? I mean, the only thing that is
> required is to fork/exec, show busy cursor, then the parent (gnome-panel
> or nautilus or whatever launches the app) monitors the app process
> (waitpid) to see if it exits and then stops the wait cursor.

The wait cursor doesn't stop when the app exits, it stops when the app
opens a window typically.

As best I can tell what Windows has for OS support is that it detects
when the app goes idle (I guess the UNIX equivalent would be "lands in
poll() or otherwise blocks for N length of time" or something). We'd
need to be able to do that for a process/thread and all its children
probably.

Havoc