Introducing automatic crash reporting in Edgy

James "Doc" Livingston doclivingston at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 14:58:42 BST 2006


On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 12:52 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: 
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:42:00PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman [2006-08-14 10:03 -0700]:
> > > Probably the best we could do would be to have Firefox use the same GNOME
> > > facility used to notify the user of activity in xchat-gnome, gaim, etc. so
> > > that the task bar flashes.
> > 
> > That would indeed be nice.
> 
> Does anyone know how much work this is, or whether it would add
> objectionable dependencies for other derivatives?

AIUI, it's only a matter of setting the right window-manager hint - so
it isn't gnome-specific.

For GTK apps, it should be just a matter of calling
  gtk_window_set_urgency_hint (window, TRUE);


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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