[Usability] Re: Killing Views Part 2 - The return of the Usabilty study

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

A S?, 2003-05-31 às 11:43, Jens Finke escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 30 May 2003, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
> > 3) Major GNOME applications need to build into their architecture the
> > ability to use existing instances when available. This is needed for
> > speed's sake or at least the appearance of speed's sake. Users shouldn't
> > have to start up a whole new instance of EOG just to view an image when
> > EOG is already running. 
> 
> welcome to the world of bonobo. eog-image-viewer is a bonobo server, which
> is re-used for every image you open. Only opening the first image when
> there is no other instance already needs some more time, because the
> server must be started by bonobo-activation. Problem: If you view images
> one after another, the server is shut down/started every time :-/. Indeed, 
> this needs fixing on some level (bonobo/b-a-s/nautilus).

  It's the eog-image-viewer itself that needs fixing.  It should not
quit immediately after it becomes unused, but should wait around for
some time before quitting.

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Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>