Problem with kdeinit and StartupInfo

[Martin Klapetek]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Alex Merry <alex.merry at kde.org> wrote:

> On 2014-10-04 10:08, David Faure wrote:
>
>> On Friday 03 October 2014 12:15:09 Alex Merry wrote:
>>
>>> Note that KDBusService has a known limitation where it just doesn't work
>>> with startup notifications in unique mode - the necessary information is
>>> never passed to the main application by the secondary instance.
>>>
>>
>> I lost track a bit there -- do you know what's missing for this to happen?
>>
>
> It's been so long since I looked at it, I can't really remember. I think
> the conclusion was that attempting to support the existing startup
> notification scheme was incredibly difficult/impossible due to a
> combination of how the X11 Qt platform plugin handles it and the
> KDBusAddons non-gui requirement. So the idea was to try to forge ahead with
> a D-Bus based alternative (which would also work on Wayland), but that
> stalled.
>
> I have an email from Ryan Lortie from a year ago about it, and about
> GNOME's implementation & plans, but it's taken a back seat to other things.
> I may get round to revisiting it at some point, but if someone is keen to
> take it on, I can forward the email (which I think was also CCd to some XDG
> list or other).


Is there some intermediate solution/workaround that could be used? This is
still an issue which makes dolphin5 + kate5 an unusable combo :(

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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