On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Morten Welinder <mort...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> What actual problem was solved by all this infrastructure to keep just >> one instance? > > Basically for any application which manipulates private files in any > form (in Firefox' case, this is the history database), it avoids data > corruption with uncontrolled access by multiple processes.
That's an excellent reason for making single-process available, but not an argument (either way) for making it the default. It certainly doesn't sound like a problem experienced by, say, evince. What is the GtkApplication solution to dealing with different environment variables, including DISPLAY and LANG? I believe the single/multiple instances is a decision for the developer and not one Gnome or Gtk should have an opinion on. Morten _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
