Re: Performance on the Linux platform

[Jason Stokes <jstok bluedog apana org au>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> Jason Stokes <jstok bluedog apana org au> writes:
> >
> > Ok, if that's the case why is it possible to start a new instance of gmc
> > via the footprint menu?  The user isn't going to be care about the
> > different ways a new window can be created.  If you choose "Close
> > Window" from the file menu, and the gmc process was only managing one
> > window, it still runs but you've now lost any way to interact with it,
> > and have to kill it with a signal, assuming the user understands such
> > things.  This is not the ideal way for a GUI program to work.
> 
> When you use the foot menu, it doesn't create a new process -
> what happens is that when it launches GMC, GMC checks to see
> if there is a process already running, and if there is, tells
> that process to create a new window and exits.
> 
> (This still takes longer than just creating a window from
> a menu, accounting for the original observation)
> 
> There should never be a case where more than once GMC is
> running at a time.

I can personally vouch for the fact that when I select "File Manager"
from the foot menu, it starts a new gmc process.  This may be an
installation problem, since my gnome is built from CVS sources, but it's
definitely the way it works.