On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 06:22 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > In the dash currently open applications are illuminated and clicking an > illuminated icon takes you to the open application. Or you can > right-click on an illuminated application and select and existing window > or "New Windows" to make a new window / instance on the current > workspace.
Following up... The "New Window" action in GNOME Shell is equivalent to clicking the application's launcher icon: it sends the already-running instance of the application an "activate" signal. The documentation for the "activate" signal [1] does not specify how applications are supposed to handle it. Some applications like GNOME Terminal actually do open a new window, some applications like GEdit open a new tab in its primary window, and some applications like Evolution and Rhythmbox merely raise its primary window to the top. I guess that's why it appears to not be doing anything for you. This is a design flaw in GNOME Shell in my opinion. The "activate" signal is too ambiguous to assign a descriptive label. The discussion in bug 650030 [2] kinda sorta addresses this, but it remains an open GNOME Shell issue. Matthew Barnes [1] http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GApplication.html#GApplication-activate [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650030 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list