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Bug 172339 - Startup notification when activating URLs
Startup notification when activating URLs
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gossip
Classification: Deprecated
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gossip Maintainers
Gossip Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-01 09:13 UTC by Ross Burton
Modified: 2006-08-08 20:53 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Ross Burton 2005-04-01 09:13:46 UTC 
[from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268703]

When the user clicks on a URL in a chat window, startup notification should be
activated so that the user knows something is happening.
Comment 1 Martyn Russell 2005-08-10 16:26:12 UTC 
Do we think something like the event message you see in a chat window (for the
timestamp) should be used to show this?

Personally I am not sure if we should have anything at all, but I know what it
is like when nothing happens, you expect _some_ feedback.
Comment 2 Ross Burton 2005-08-10 16:41:45 UTC 
I mean use the startup notification libraries so that the cursor changes to a
busy+arrow pointer whilst the browser starts.

Drawing a selection box for a split second and changing the colour like Gecko
does would be nice too.
Comment 3 Richard Hult 2006-02-22 20:35:16 UTC 
Shouldn't the gnome_show_url/gnome_vfs_show_url API take care of startup notification? It feels weird that each app would have to do it.
Comment 4 Martyn Russell 2006-02-23 11:48:22 UTC 
I agree with Richard here.

Plus, other than the immediate response from the API to know if the function was successfull, we have no real way of knowing if the browser or what ever should be launched was successfull that I know of - so how would we know when to turn off the notification (even if we did do it).
Comment 5 Richard Hult 2006-02-23 11:56:52 UTC 
Martyn, that's what the startup notification lib does. I just argue that gnome(vfs) should use that, and not the apps.
Comment 6 Martyn Russell 2006-06-21 21:26:39 UTC 
Removing version specifics.
Comment 7 Martyn Russell 2006-08-08 20:53:10 UTC 
Closing this as WONTFIX, since Richard and I agree this should be done in GnomeVFS or the underlying library that we use to launch URLs, not on an app by app basis.