Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv

["jose aliste gmail com" <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hi

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 18:41 +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:47:59 +0100
>> Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
>> > If it's most programs then surely you can give some example. I don't
>> > think that most applications have to deal with caching, bookmarks, and
>> > history like Firefox.
>>
>> I didn't realise you wanted examples, but most programs that have a
>> shared resource would fall into this category. For example, my mail
>> reader (claws), and most other mail readers for that matter apart from
>> yours, evolution, which I think is server/database based, are single
>> instance programs (as it happens I have seen complaints that, for any
>> one user, evolution should be single instance). The messaging
>> applications I am running, empathy and pidgin, are single instance
>> programs. (Skype is an example of a poorly designed one which does
>> start another instance but then complains about it and interferes with
>> itself: it would have done better to get it right by itself.)
> [snip]
>
> Yes, these are applications that should be single instance because
> that's what is obviously best for the user and it's about useless extra
> windows showing the same thing rather than about any user awareness of
> processes.
>
> But for applications that actually have some reason to have multiple
> windows (typically document-based applications) I still know of no
> reason why we would want to suggest that they should have all windows in
> one process.
>
The only thing I can think of is in apps with tabs, like firefox,
chrome, gedit. In this case, you will want to have one instance so you
can detach one tab from one window and attach it to another window (I
am assuming that doing this without having only one instance could be
much much harder)...

Greets

José


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