Rename README.kstartupinfo -> README.tdestartupinfo and edit for rebranding.

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Darrell Anderson 10 years ago
parent 6a3e56b574
commit 12336c7176

@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@kde.org>
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When a new application is started in KDE, together with it a startup
When a new application is started in TDE, together with it a startup
notification is sent, which is used to show a startup entry in taskbar,
the busy icon next to the cursor and put the window of the started app
on correct desktop.
This application startup notification ( ASN for short in the following
text ) usually works fine without problems, but some applications and
some special cases may need special handling.
Right now, this is only an internal KDE standard, but since a toolkit
Right now, this is only an internal TDE standard, but since a toolkit
support would improve the results a bit, I'll try to discuss this
on http://www.freedesktop.org .
@ -55,11 +55,11 @@ X-TDE-WMClass=<string>
- either if its windows is correctly detected using the default
WMClass value ( the name of the binary )
- or if a window is mapped that is not recognized ( doesn't have
neither _KDE_STARTUP_ID nor _NET_WM_PID property /*CHECKME*/),
neither _TDE_STARTUP_ID nor _NET_WM_PID property /*CHECKME*/),
it's assumed this window belongs to the started app;
the start-on-desktop feature won't work then too
- if not set, it defaults to the binary name of the app ( ok for most apps,
including KDE ones )
including TDE ones )
- to get the WMCLASS value for any app, run 'xprop' and click on the app's
window, WMCLASS value for this app should be any of the strings listed
in the WM_CLASS property ( it's usually the same as the name of the
@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ MapNotify=<bool>
- this key is obsolete
- true is equivalent to X-TDE-StartupNotify=true and no X-TDE-WMClass set
- false is equivalent to X-TDE-StartupNotify=true and X-TDE-WMClass=0
- many .desktop files in KDE ( especially in tdebase/kappfinder )
- many .desktop files in TDE ( especially in tdebase/kappfinder )
seem to have MapNotify=false even though it's not needed, this
needs to be checked and replaced by the needed X-TDE-* values,
often just X-TDE-StartupNotify=true should be enough
@ -137,28 +137,28 @@ Implementation details :
this is mainly in hope also non-TDE people will start using it, and
they wouldn't be very happy with DCOP.
Before starting an application, and environment variable called
KDE_STARTUP_ENV is added to it's environment, and it's set to unique
TDE_STARTUP_ENV is added to it's environment, and it's set to unique
identifier of its startup notification, or "0" for disabled ASN.
Ideally, the application should read it, and set a window property
called _KDE_STARTUP_ID ( type XA_STRING ) at least on its first mapped
called _TDE_STARTUP_ID ( type XA_STRING ) at least on its first mapped
toplevel window to this value. It should also unset it, so it doesn't get
propagated to other applications started from it. It should also
update the ASN info when necessary, e.g. when KUniqueApplication
forks into background, it sends the PID change. That's how compliant
applications should work, and this support for ASN should be provided
by toolkits. All KDE application should be compliant by now, since
tdelibs do all the necessary things. The KDE_STARTUP_ENV variable
is read and unset in TDEApplication constructor, and _KDE_STARTUP_ID
by toolkits. All TDE application should be compliant by now, since
tdelibs do all the necessary things. The TDE_STARTUP_ENV variable
is read and unset in TDEApplication constructor, and _TDE_STARTUP_ID
is set on every toplevel window in TDEApplication::setTopWidget().
However, majority of applications aren't compliant now, and even
if I succeed making this thing a standard ( part of NETWM_SPEC
or whatever ), there still will be old applications that won't behave
this way. Not unsetting KDE_STARTUP_ENV is not a big problem, since
this way. Not unsetting TDE_STARTUP_ENV is not a big problem, since
the ASN for its value will usually timeout, and when the app starts
a new application, this ASN identification value will get reused without
problems. The other problem is detecting, which newly mapped windows
belong to which starting application. If a newly mapped window doesn't
have _KDE_STARTUP_ID property, the code tries to read its _NET_WM_PID
have _TDE_STARTUP_ID property, the code tries to read its _NET_WM_PID
property, and if it's set, it tries to match it ( together with
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE ) with PIDs of all ASN infos. And if the window
doesn't have even the _NET_WM_PID property, WM_CLASS property is used
@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Text entries in the messages :
Every entry is of the form <name>=<value>. Value may be either a number
or a string. If the string contains spaces, it must be quoted ("), all
backslashes and quotes (") must be escaped by backslashes. If this ever
becomes more than an internal KDE standard, non-standard entry names should
becomes more than an internal TDE standard, non-standard entry names should
start with an underscore.
Entries :
@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ Entries :
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Well, I guess that's all. The KDE2.2 release will show if the users like it
Well, I guess that's all. The TDE2.2 release will show if the users like it
or not ( it's quite good IMHO, even though there are probably some minor
details to fix or improve ). The only big thing remaining is to make also
non-TDE people agree on using something like this. My first attempt
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