On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 07:41:13PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > of course multiple instances are possible. i want mailto: to be handled by > > a single instance of mutt; the one running on tty1 in my case. > > But why jump thru hoops when there is no necessity. What reasons are > there?
Because the user wants a different user experience than the one provided by running multiple instances of Mutt, obviously. What is so hard to understand about that? Here's an example of why: I run my desktop with all my "applications" in windows which are tiled in essentially fixed positions on my screen (with some overlap, but as little as I can manage). There is not a shred of free screen real estate on my main desktop; I need to switch to alternate desktops when I want to do something out of the ordinary, in order to not mess with those other windows overmuch. When applications pop up new windows, it breaks how I work in some fashion or other--not that I can't handle the occasional pop-up, but in order to keep my workflow streamlined I want that to happen as infrequently as possible. Adding something where new windows pop up with new mutt instances is generally unwelcome in my workflow, no matter how well it may "work" in the context of Mutt. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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