[Usability]Re: Usability digest, Vol 1 #589 - 8 msgs

[Andrew Sobala <andrew sobala net>]

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 17:00, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> I noticed two bug reports today for control panels which can be shown twice
> but fail to display the same information. (#98079, #98085)
> 
> Control panels should not allow multiple simultaneous instances.
> Instead, later invocations should cause a running instance to be shown.
> 
> More than one instance could confuse users and does not provide useful
> information.
> 

There is a bug about this, I just can't find it :-)

It has to be remembered that capplets should only be unique per
"machine", however you define machine. The control center should allow
multiple capplets for the same user on different machines to access the
same gconf database.

-- 
Andrew

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