Martin Ejdestig пишет: > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 22:37 +0400, Alexey Rusakov wrote: >> Hynek Hanke wrote: >>> I'm using 4 virtual desktops (if this is not the correct term, please >>> let me know) in my Gnome 2.14. When I start an application in one >>> desktop, it takes some time to start the application and in the >>> meantime, I switch to another desktop, the application will start >>> on that different desktop and I have to manually move it back. >>> >>> This gets especially annoying if the application issues some dialogs >>> before it actually starts (like galeon after-crash dialog, which I see >>> quite regularly by the way) and the application doesn't appear, so >>> I have to go through my desktops and look for the lost dialog to click >>> ok... >> I don't think it's so obvious. What about looking through my desktops, >> because I launched Galeon on one of them (forgot, on which one) and then >> immediately moved to to another desktop? If "the bug" gets fixed, the >> after-crash dialog will appear on the desktop, on which I no more look. > > There are hints that can be set so that windows appear flashing in the > window list even if they aren't on the same workspace as the one you're > currently viewing. > > (E.g. chat windows in Gossip located on another workspace does this if > something is said. When you click it in the window list, you are brought > to the correct workspace.) > > That's how it should work. It shouldn't disrupt your work by putting a > dialog smack in the middle of your face. That's a bug. Agreed. Combined with startup notification mechanism, Hynek's proposal certainly makes sense. And it's not a feature of an application, it should be a feature of gnome-session, I believe.
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