Re: Proposing GtkUnique 1.0 as a blessed external dependency

[Germán Poó Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 23:09 -0300, Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 02:54 +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:33 +0000, Don Scorgie wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:29 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 12:24 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > > > as some maintainers of GNOME modules have expressed their interest in
> > > > > > using GtkUnique[1] as a dependency for their applications, I'd like to
> > > > > > officially propose it as a blessed external dependency for GNOME.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Plus one from me (for gnome-power-manager).
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to use it in Sound Juicer too.
> > > 
> > > Ditto me, yelp.
> > 
> > Only one help browser at the time?
> > 
> > Even if it implemented tabs, it's likely that the apps run on different
> > workspaces, and it's nice to have the help browser right next to the app
> > for which you seek help.
> 
> GtkUnique would only be used so that there is only one yelp executable
> running, so that you do not have several geckos running and so on.
> That's orthogonal to the location and number of the yelp windows.

I'm not sure if yelp is a good candidate for GtkUnique.

It's quite annoying when you work in a dual-head station and only able
to run the application in only one display.

That is the case of Firefox nowadays.  It complains there is another
instance running.  So, you can't follow links in the another one.

It makes sense for sound-juicer, but not for every single application.

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Germán Poó-Caamaño
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