The specification that applications have to support is called
startup-notification.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/startup-notification-spec/startup-notification-latest.txt

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awill...@whitemice.org>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 15:11 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> > Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 09:00 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit :
> > > Huh.  Should that work?  I'm in the activity view, so I see the tiled
> > > apps of the current workstation, the left hand applications bar [what
> is
> > > the official name of that thing] and on the right hand the tiled
> > > workspaces.  I grab an app and drag it to a workspace.... and it opens
> > > [starts] in the current workspace.  Is that incorrect [something isn't
> > > working] or am I misunderstanding the above? [because that would be an
> > > awesome feature - especially for apps that take some time to start]
> > That's currently working with GTK apps, try with Nautilus for example.
> > But some non-GTK apps don't support this for some reason, and there's a
> > bug open for that in Bugzilla.
>
> Yep, it appears to work for gnome-terminal and banshee.
>
> Not working for Nautilus or Evolution (but opening nautilus and
> evolution windows always seems odd if you already have an instance
> open).
>
> It doesn't work for DbVisualizer (Java app) or LibreOffice apps.
>
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