Re: The path of least blame

[Diego Fernandez <aiguo fernandez gmail com>]

Well, for me personally most of the time I want the currently running
application (being firefox, terminal, etc) to be brought up if I tried
to open a new instance (as it's likely I forgot it was already open).
If I need a new instance of a certain application I'm most likely
using it at that point and it's much easier to hit ctrl-n (or
ctrl-shift-n for terminal) than it is to use the dock.  On a side
note, if you often use multiple terminals why not use Terminator?
seems to be the best for the job IMHO.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Holger Berndt <berndth gmx de> wrote:
> On Do, 04.08.2011 23:23, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
>
>>I think that terminals are only the best example of this situation.
>>While most apps best behave as single-instance, a few of them are
>>multiple-instance, and we still expect a click to open a new window:
>>terminal, file manager (to open several folders separately), word
>>processor. Maybe special-casing them wouldn't be too disturbing, indeed.
>
> Instead of special-casing selected applications, it may make sense to
> define a .desktop-file key that specifys: "I am a multi-mainwindow
> application".
>
> Holger
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