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

[Thomas Prost <thomas prost prosts info>]

Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2012, 07:58 -0500 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: 
> 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 ?" ;-)

... with respect to those who were used to start their applications with
a double-click ;-)

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