Developer in the middle [Re: Only one instance of a capplet should be allowed]

2006-02-22 Thread David SedeƱo Fernandez
Hi, El mar, 21-02-2006 a las 19:50 -0500, Havoc Pennington escribiĆ³: [..] > > There are a variety of complexities, but this is a pretty longstanding > thing nobody has ever fixed... every app is hand-rolling some wacky > solution. > > Havoc Let introduce myself: I'm the developer of a gnome pr

Re: Only one instance of a capplet should be allowed

2006-02-22 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 01:50, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Virtually all apps really should be single-instance (though they often > allow multiple document windows). Single-instanceness should be defined carefully (e.g. session-wide or machine-wide) for different application classes. Do you allow 2 in

Re: Only one instance of a capplet should be allowed

2006-02-22 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Havoc Pennington writes: > Virtually all apps really should be single-instance (though they often > allow multiple document windows). There should be an API in GTK for it, And if such API will be created, it should be able to handle single instance with zero windows and zero documents opened. Su

Re: Only one instance of a capplet should be allowed

2006-02-22 Thread Calum Benson
On 21 Feb 2006, at 20:44, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: Hi, Currently it is possible to fire up a capplet multiple times. This can be confusing for users [1]. It would be better if a capplet was launched for the second time that the window of the currently running applet was raised. True most