[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#581347: chromium-browser: Doesn't use startup-notification correctly
Sam Morris
sam at robots.org.uk
Wed May 12 10:32:19 UTC 2010
Package: chromium-browser
Version: 5.0.375.29~r46008-3
Severity: normal
When a second instance of chromium-browser is launched via the GNOME
application menu or clicking on a shortcut on the panel, the mouse
cursor continues to play the 'waiting' animation, and the window
switcher continues to say 'Starting Chromium' for quite some time after
the second Chromium window has actually appeared.
I've seen this in other programs that do not properly implement the
startup-notification spec from freedesktop.org. The guide at
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/integration-guide/stable/startup-notification.html.en>
states:
Regardless of toolkit, there is one type of application where you
would have to manually handle feedback. Applications with remoting
capabilities (where you tell an existing process to open a new
window instead of starting a new process) cannot use the built-in
mechanism. The value of the DESKTOP_LAUNCH_ID environment has to be
passed by your application and have it notify the launching system
of your new window. If you are using GTK+, the documentation for
gdk_notify_startup_complete() has a bit more information.
So it looks like chromium does not properly perform this additional step
when an additional window is opened.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii chromium-browser-ins 5.0.375.29~r46008-3 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii libasound2 1.0.22-2 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libavcodec52 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg codec library
ii libavformat52 4:0.5.1-3 ffmpeg file format library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-1 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.0-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libicu42 4.2.1-3 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b-16.1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.4-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.6-2 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.43-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.1.1-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.5-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-3 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxss1 1:1.2.0-2 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii xdg-utils 1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
chromium-browser recommends no packages.
Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
ii chromium-browser-l10 5.0.375.29~r46008-3 chromium-browser language packages
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