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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Alberto,

On Friday 19 April 2013 16:50:17 Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>   Unless something changed in the latest images, 

Nope, hasn't changed.

>   in order to make an
> application visible one needs to add the --desktop_file_hint=...
> parameter when launching it. This raises a couple of questions:
> - why is this needed?

To be able to distinguish between apps on an application level (as opposed to 
window level or process level)

> - will it go away? (if so, can I be of help?)

I hope so. Not sure on the roadmap and how this problem will be solved. There 
seems to be something ongoing in the freedesktop.org spec that would add this 
functionality to toolkits in a standardized way. 

> I currently have an application which starts another application, and
> even if adding another parameter is not difficult, it annoys me to have
> to modify the code and build system to accomodate it.

Agreed.

Cheers,
Michael