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

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:20:57PM +0000, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> 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 :-)

Found it:  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91853

> 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.

It is rather confusing. We have to deal with displays, screens, and hosts.
The mechanisms are easy once we know what should be unique to what.
I'll try to sort it out later.


Cheers,
Greg Merchan