On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 11:42 AM Britt Yazel via desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list@gnome.org> wrote: > > I don't like not knowing if Telegram/Discord/Steam are still running after I > close them. [...] I'm not sure why exactly these apps don't show a running > indicator in the Dash for this use case.
As far as the shell is concerned, an application is running if at least one window is associated with the app. That definition isn't easy to change, because there's a fair amount of technical limitations in place: We have reasonably reliable heuristics for finding the .desktop file that "belongs" to some window, there's no such thing for random processes. There is hope for "non-random" processes though. Flatpak does know about its running processes and to which app they map, and could expose that information to the compositor. Maybe a systemd user instance could provide something like that as well. It is certainly a question the design team is pondering: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/BackgroundApps Florian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
