Some applications take a while to start up for the first time, taking time to access the hard drive before displaying anything on the screen. An example of this is the Firefox browser. When I double-click on a desktop icon to start Firefox, or use Metacity to start it up with a key binding, the only indication that I have successfully started the program is the blinking of my hard drive light. I believe that there should be some sort of indication that the program has been successfully started, so I don't end up opening one firefox window and five "Select a profile" windows. In Windows, the solution is to put an hourglass next to the mouse, which helps immensely. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find a program that takes a while to load before showing up on the screen. 2. Run it. 3. Look for any indication on the screen that you've successfully run the program. Actual Results: The system doesn't show any indication that a new program is loading. Expected Results: Some gnome programs add a temporary task to the task bar, but for those that don't use the task bar applet, it might be better just to use the mouse indicator to show that a program is running.
put StartupNotify=true in the .desktop files that you want this to happen with. ( you need startup-notification )
