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

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 13:18 +0100, Thomas Prost wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2012, 06:41 -0500 schrieb Matthew Barnes: 
> > 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
> In between there are those "intelligent" ones, that tell you, that there
> already is an instance running and ask you "Start Anyway ?" ;-)

Yep.  Then I growl at the screen and mutter "Uh, yea, that is why I
deliberately clicked 'New &^@&*^@&* Window'!".  :)