[kde-linux] Different behavior between console and taskbar invocation?

[James Kerr]

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 Frank K wrote:

>           List, I’m curious why Thunderbird and Firefox invoke from
> my taskbar with a “bouncing” icon but a terminal invocation seems
> to be “immediate”?
> 
> 
>           The minute long “bouncing” icon gives the impression that
> the application is looking for something it can't find. 



For some reason, when  Firefox is launched the busy cursor continues 
to display until it times out. The only way that I know to correct 
this is to reduce the time-out or disable the busy cursor altogether, 
in systemsettings - Desktop - Launch Feedback.

I don't use thunderbird, but I assume the same applies to it. 

(I use Mandriva's firefox packages.)

Jim