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Re: [RP] comment from Havoc Pennington on startup notification
From: |
Chris Beggy |
Subject: |
Re: [RP] comment from Havoc Pennington on startup notification |
Date: |
Tue Apr 29 07:15:08 2003 |
On 29 Apr 2003, Jonathan Walther <address@hidden> wrote:
> Back in October, the GNOME people were looking at the same issues we
> were. Below is a quote from Havoc Pennington about startup notification.
> It reminds me of a couple things I'd like to see in ratpoison:
>
> 1) If I start an app, then switch to another window, I don't want to
> lose focus in my current window when the window of the new app pops up.
> I'd rather the window opened underneath the current window, and a little
> message flashed up saying that my window was ready.
>
> 2) Of course, we'd all like windows to pop up in the frame/screen that
> we invoked their applications in.
>
> Startup notification looks like it can allow both of those things. This
> is pretty exciting, especially if we can get it into the ICCCM standard
> and the standard X apps.
Great. Please let me know when all this is implemented in ratpoison so
I can start the popuppoison wm project.
Chris