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    <revision version="0.1" date="2014-01-28" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>David King</name>

      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2014</years>

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  <title>Startup Notification</title>

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    <title>Launch your application</title>

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Notify the user when your application has finished starting up.

  
GNOME implements the

  <link href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/index.html">Startup

  Notification protocol</link>, to give feedback to the user when application

  startup finishes.

  
GTK+ applications automatically support startup notification, and by

  default notify that application startup is complete when the first window is

  shown. Your application must declare that it supports startup notification by

  adding StartupNotify=true to its desktop file.

  
More complicated startup scenarios, such as showing a splash screen during

  startup, would need custom handling with gdk_notify_startup_complete().

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