Re: [gedit-list] Suggestion for gedit - file opening.

[Paolo Borelli <pborelli katamail com>]

Il giorno dom, 05/10/2008 alle 14.17 +0100, Andrew Bryant ha scritto:
> Would someone please clarify this.  With Gedit gedit 2.22.3 I find there 
> are two actions:
> 
> 1) A second file opened from the gedit internal browser appears in a new 
> tab.
> 2) A second file opened from Nautilus appears in a new instance of Gedit.
> 
> Is this the expected behaviour?
> 

No. Even when opening from nautilus or a terminal the tab should be
added to the gedit window present on the current workspace. In fact
that's what happens here.

However you are not the first to report this problem: I think it's a bug
somewhere lower in the stack (maybe in X or the window manager) that
doesn't properly tell us which is the current workspace. It would be
great if you could help investigate this problem, since we cannot
reproduce it.  

Paolo

> Now that this topic has been raised, I seem to remember that there was a 
> time when a second file always appeared in a new tab.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> 
> 
> gedit-list-request gnome org wrote:
> 
> On za, 2008-09-13 at 16:31 -0400, Shaun Reich wrote:
> 
> > > Hello, I'm not sure if this is the method of communication, for
> > > suggestions, but here goes:
> > > 
> > > I believe that gedit should have an option in preferences to try to
> > > use the same instance(window) of gedit. When I have a window already
> > > open and I click another text document, it should actually open
> > > another tab in the current-most window. It should be an option of
> > > course, in the preference window.
> >   
> 
> This is actually already exactly what gedit does, it's a single instance
> application which tries to open files in active windows on the current
> viewport/workspace if possible. If this is not working in your case,
> then either you found a bug somewhere, or maybe you have an old version
> of gedit.
> 
> 
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