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Idea: add "Web" top level menu category plus some "Web-Apps" with icons that link to pages #59

Closed star-buck closed 5 years ago

star-buck commented 6 years ago

I know we had looked and tried some apps before, I just can't seem to find the ticket (or it was done in person without ticket system), so here is one opened:

Both launchers should open firefox in its own process and if possible retain displaying their assigned icon in taskmanager to keep them seperate.

star-buck commented 6 years ago

an email from Eike regarding that topic:

(1)

Change desktop file:

  • Use firefox --class hooktube instead of xdg-open in Exec=
  • Add StartupWMClass=hooktube to .desktop file

Effect: Icon will be taken from hooktube.desktop file both for startup notification and final task.

Problem: If you launch Firefox from its launcher you get a second window. Since there's an existing instance, and Firefox' code is meh, it will continue to use the passed --class for the second window, so the seperate Firefox task also has the same task icon.

(2)

Change desktop file: Set StartupNotify=true to false

Effect: No startup notification for hooktube, Firefox will just pop up with it open

I can't think of any other options, sorry. If StartupNotify is on, then KRun will simply create a startup notification for that .desktop file, which doesn't match the resulting Firefox window. There's no way to override what KRun does there, which makes sense - of course it creates a notification for the .desktop file you're using.

(1) would in theory be nice if Firefox was smart enough never to reuse an instance with a different WMCLASS (or at least not reuse the WMCLASS on further windows) so you could have a proper fully seperate Hooktube task. (This is how Chrome web apps work.) Alas, Firefox isn't that smart.

There may be some workarounds, but it's not super efficient for me to investigate this in particular since it's not really TM-related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/5wrnsj/is_there_a_app_mode_in_firefox/?st=jg5ej2ah&sh=b78a9b2f

star-buck commented 5 years ago

works okay so far when adding the package.

star-buck commented 5 years ago

needs to be added to Rolling

NuLogicSystems commented 5 years ago

I packaged and added what was already in ds9-extras, with no changes on my end. https://github.com/ds9-extras/web-menu-entries/tree/master/usr/share/applications Shouldn't those changes need to be made there?