[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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