[ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Pope]

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On 01/05/12 15:01, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On 01/05/12 15:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>> 
>> This *really* shouldn't be so hard!
> 
> Well, Talend is based on Eclipse, which is a very complex Java app
> with all sorts of weird stuff going on. Last time I used Talend on
> Ubuntu, I had to compile a specific version of xulrunner from
> source. So you might very well have hit an edge case that confuses
> Unity.
> 
> Time for a bug report methinks :-)
> 

I had a chat with a couple of the developers today. It seems one of
the big issues they have is that java doesn't export any information
about the application running through X. So it doesn't let on what pid
the windows belong to, what application is running in the window etc.
So doing the window matching is incredibly hard.

The fix apparently is to fix java to export that data.

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope at canonical.com
http://ubuntu.com/
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