Show launcher when not running

[dlanor78]

I recently read about a neat feature in kde 4.6 where you can have launchers for applications in the panel that only show when the applications isn't running. Just right click on the running app in the panel's task manager>Advanced and click "Show A Launcher For _____ When It Is Not Running".

Which brings me to why I'm posting here. I can't get this option to show up with Firefox 4.0b12pre (using the nightly ppa). I also don't see it for Firefox 3.6.12pre. It doesn't seem to be a gtk issue because I see the option in things like wibom-gtk and other gtk apps I've tried it on so far. Anyone have any ideas what's going on here?

Also related to this feature, any windows applications that I run with wine show no icon, just a blank space. Mouseover doesn't show app name, just wine or something like that. Anyone know of a way to manually choose an icon for these? Right clicking on the spot doesn't give me an option to choose an icon or whatever. Not a big deal on this one though. I don't really expect that linux developers are gonna think to make windows apps work with features like this ;-) Maybe I'll make a feature request if I find out where to make one for this.

[SIR_Taco]

Re: Show launcher when not running

Please keep in mind that 4.6, even though it's a release candidate, is still in beta. I looked into your problem, it's a known glitchy feature that has bug reports submitted for the problems you describe. With any luck it will be sorted out when the official 4.6 is released... if not, it will be removed or you'll have to deal with the oddities until 4.7.

As far as the icons for Wine apps go, I'm not entirely sure. I assume you mean the icon in the top-left corner of the window and in the task tray? I don't believe you can manually set a window icon, that's all related to the program and it's code... not really any way to splice in an icon there. I find the window icons are hit-and-miss with Wine... maybe it has to do with the window version they were compiled for? I have no idea. Some programs I get the right icon, some programs I get a blank spot and some programs I get a nice drunken wine glass. It's just the nature of the beast I think.

Hope that helps

Cheers!