Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv

[Morten Welinder <mortenw gnome org>]

> Sorry, I don't understand. Could you explain in more detail?

If you need to run two different windows in two different locales, then
single-instance is not possible.  For Gnumeric this happens regularly
due to the world's decimal separator mess.

The reason you cannot do this in a single instance is that (a) setlocale
is not thread safe, and (b) libraries like gtk+ like to start their own
threads out of your control.

> Why would
> two separate instances (separate processes) of the same app care if
> setlocale is not thread safe?

They wouldn't.  I didn't mean to imply that.

Morten