Re: [jirka 5z com: Re: KDE 2.0 impressions]

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 8 Nov 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> George <jirka 5z com> writes: 
> > So, could this maybe go into 1.4?
> > 
> 
> Let's do it cleanly; define that the environment variable is called
> DESKTOP_LAUNCH_ID or something, and define the name of the X property
> to contain the launch ID on client windows (suggest using the _NET_
> convention from the WM spec), maybe _NET_DESKTOP_LAUNCH_ID.  Then we
> can get it implemented in toolkits and dump the LD_PRELOAD hack
> eventually.

Would it be possible to add support for this in gnome-libs through an
emission hook on the realise signal for the widget?  This could be done
without adding a new API by setting up this hook inside
gnome_init.  Alternatively, it could be done inside of gtk in a similar
fashion.  This would instantly give support for all gnome or gtk
applications.

The other option would be to do it through a gtk module, which avoids
some of the symbol resolution slowdown caused by LD_PRELOAD and requires
no modifications to gtk or gnome-libs. 

James.