Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 8 February 2012 15:10, Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com> wrote:

> Well, what I really mean is that gnome-shell should *try* to start a new
> instance. If the application is single-window, it will work as before:
> the app will be presented to the user. So, for example, if you had skype
> already running on another workspace, gnome-shell would execute the
> "skyp" command, and skype would do what it already does: present the
> existing window.

there is no programmatic way for an application to describe whether
it's going to open a new window, a new tab, or create a new process,
or what its default is.

plus, gnome-terminal is, strictly speaking, a single instance
application. whenever you execute 'gnome-terminal', the currently
running process (if any) will be contacted, and a new window or tab
will be created. you actually have to use a specific command line
incantation to get it to create a new process.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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