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Bug 811

Summary: Startup notification support?
Product: SDL Reporter: Sven Arvidsson <sa>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   

Description Sven Arvidsson 2009-09-26 14:13:50 UTC 
Hi,

Are there any plans to add support for startup notification to SDL? This would enable apps using SDL to show a "busy" cursor while loading, providing a little bit of feedback to the user. GTK+ (and supposedly Qt) already make use of this.

The spec:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/startup-notification-spec

Reference implementation:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/startup-notification
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-26 15:11:15 UTC 
Yep, that's not a bad idea for SDL 1.3.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2010-07-18 01:16:28 UTC 
This is a complicated enough protocol that we won't be adding this for the SDL 1.3 release.  If it's something you'd really like to see sooner, you're welcome to submit a patch.

Thanks for the heads up though!