Re: Easier setting of start up layout

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 07:21:09 +0200
> From: Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>
> Reply-To: dia-list gnome org
> To: dia-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Easier setting of start up layout
>
> Le Thu, Apr 03, 2003, à 04:18:01PM -0600, Lars Clausen a écrit:
>
>
> > It might be easier on Win32, which is more single-user oriented.  If there
> > are other (Unix) programs that do this *well*, we could follow their example.

Gimp for windows does not bother with this.
Abiword does not open more than one instance.

> Trust me, it is not very hard to do it on Win32, but it's very easy to mess
> up too....

I vaguely recall the acronym DDE.

I even more vaguely believe that Hans said it was a load of annoying
hassle (but i could be mistaken).

- Alan