Re: gmc

[Damien Miller <dmiller ilogic com au>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > > bash$ new-instance gmc
> > >
> > > Which will do the right thing.
> > 
> > Yuck! that does not seem sane, but then of cource, that could just be me :)
> > What is the advantage? What exactly does this new-instance thing do anyways?
> 
> new-instance will contact the gnome-name-server corba service and see
> if a copy of the file manager is already running.  If it is, we get
> back a handle to the factory CORBA object and we ask the factory to
> create a new window.  If the file manager factory has not been
> started, the gnome-name-server will launch gmc for you.

Why not make gmc do this itself?

Regards,
Damien Miller

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