On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
Personally, I wouldn't mind the change of this behaviour, anyway. Right now the icon of the app already launched does nothing useful on single/double click and just takes up the screen space.
For launched apps it brings the app forward or acts as a place holder for the hidden app and unhides it (and also opens the app menu on right click where you can do actions like kill a frozen app, etc.). This is what all app icons do (regardless if docked or not). If some would launch additional instances instead that would be inconsistent. Launching with Ctrl is an additional function not clashing with the primary function. I think they cannot do both at the same time in a consistent way. You said when it worked the way you described it only launched additional instances of apps with some setting but behaved like other appicons for others if I got that correctly. This does not sound more consistent than the current behaviour to me so I don't think it should be a default option.
That, or completely do without the icons' strips of any kind. Optionally, if you please. You can already switch off the Dock and the Clip, why not dispense with the icons completely?
You can disable appicons per app already and you could add a default to disable it for all apps. (I did not try it but it may work.) In the window inspector (that you can bring up selecting Attributes in a Window menu) select Defaults for all windows in the Window Specification tab then No application icon on Applicaion Specific tab. If Window Maker becomes unusable as a result you can revert it by deleting the appropriate section from your GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes.
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