Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 15:17 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > hi; > > On 8 February 2012 15:10, Julien Olivier <jul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well, what I really mean is that gnome-shell should *try* to start a new > > instance. If the application is single-window, it will work as before: > > the app will be presented to the user. So, for example, if you had skype > > already running on another workspace, gnome-shell would execute the > > "skyp" command, and skype would do what it already does: present the > > existing window. > > there is no programmatic way for an application to describe whether > it's going to open a new window, a new tab, or create a new process, > or what its default is. >
If the application wants to have only one window, it should use something like LibUnique ( http://live.gnome.org/LibUnique ). AFAIK, Rhythmbox already works this way for example. If it doesn't, then it's the user's choice whether he wants to open a new window or not. > plus, gnome-terminal is, strictly speaking, a single instance > application. whenever you execute 'gnome-terminal', the currently > running process (if any) will be contacted, and a new window or tab > will be created. you actually have to use a specific command line > incantation to get it to create a new process. > That's not how it works on my PC: launching gnome-terminal twice consecutively opens two terminals. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
