The logical way is right-click on the icon, and display a menu that
contains Start New ... .
Middle-click is definitely not discoverable .
I am have just found out about this possibility now when I found this already
existing bug !
Unfortunately this is too late for me. I have already
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 785271 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785271
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 785271
regular applications should have a Open New Window menu entry by default
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Unity should have an *obvious* way to open multiple instances of
Right clicking and choosing app name from menu should always open new
window, if you wanted the window already running you can just left click
after all.
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Dimitris, I find your solution less intuitive than what's currently
available and it would mess up with apps like Empathy that want just one
instance.
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Empathy behaves ok on middle click - if the buddy list is not focused or
even closed (in the indicator) it just comes up. I don't see why it
would be a problem with right click - Empathy. As for intuitiveness,
middle click can't score too high on that.
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If Right-click-$APPNAME should open a new window, it should always do this.
If for Empathy Right-click-Empathy opens the same window you have
inconsistent (= confusing) behavior.
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In fact, middle-click is already implemented. This will not be obvious
enough for some, but it's as obvious as we want to make this
non-standard behaviour. In addition, if it's a particularly important
behaviour for any individual app, they could put it in their quicklist.
But we will not add it
https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg04955.html
Per the above message, it seems the dev's will be adding Open new
Window individually to the quicklist of each application that supports
multiple windows instead of adding it for every application. So it is
already available in firefox now, I
Clicking on Terminal in Launcher doesn't open a new instance of
Terminal, must open a new window of the app.
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In addition, as noted in Bug 656517, many laptops have no middle button.
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Title:
Unity should have an *obvious* way to open multiple instances of
In my opinion, the most obvious choice seems to be the
right-click menu open new [application name],
since this was what I tried first. I did arrive eventually at finding
out that the middle-click opens a new instance, but it wasn't at all
obvious.
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right-click menu open new [application name],
That's also what the GNOME3 guys did for their dash.
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-
introduction.html.en
To pick a window in a running application, or to open a new window,
right-click on the application icon. You can
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Title:
Unity should have an *obvious* way to open multiple instances of
applications
How about adding open new or something similar to the right click
menu, or whatever the proper name for a context menu on the launcher is,
as suggested or implied above by Lucian?
Another option would of course be to make open new instance the
default behaviour and not be so very Mac OS X
Crikey, I spent a long time trying to work out how to do this, and just
could not figure it out. I thought it might be a missing feature with
the alphas, but after just trying the beta I still couldn't do it. Very
frustrating!
So having found this bug report, I now know. Except, what do I do if I
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** Summary changed:
- Unity should have a way to open multiple instances of applications
+ Unity should have an *obvious* way to open multiple instances of applications
** Description changed:
Currently, there is no obvious way to open multiple instances of
applications in Unity. It is
** Also affects: unity-2d
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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