Re: [Evolution] Evolution -> New Windows does not open a new window

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 06:41 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 06:22 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > In the dash currently open applications are illuminated and clicking an
> > illuminated icon takes you to the open application.  Or you can
> > right-click on an illuminated application and select and existing window
> > or "New Windows" to make a new window / instance on the current
> > workspace.
> Following up...
> The "New Window" action in GNOME Shell is equivalent to clicking the
> application's launcher icon: it sends the already-running instance of
> the application an "activate" signal.
> The documentation for the "activate" signal [1] does not specify how
> applications are supposed to handle it.  Some applications like GNOME
> Terminal actually do open a new window, some applications like GEdit
> open a new tab in its primary window, and some applications like
> Evolution and Rhythmbox merely raise its primary window to the top.

Agree, Evolution is not the only app that behaves 'wrong' [it doesn't do
what the text of the menu item describes].

It is just one of the applications I use all-day-long.  Figured I'd at
least shake-the-tree about it.

> I guess that's why it appears to not be doing anything for you.

No, it does 'something' [generates a notification], it just doesn't do
the expected thing.

> This is a design flaw in GNOME Shell in my opinion.  The "activate"
> signal is too ambiguous to assign a descriptive label.
> The discussion in bug 650030 [2] kinda sorta addresses this, but it
> remains an open GNOME Shell issue.

Thanks for the follow-up.

> [1] http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GApplication.html#GApplication-activate
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650030