Re: [Usability] panel usability

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Boris Goldowsky wrote:

>  - clicking on panel launchers for currently-running programs, hoping to
> bring them forward.  In many cases, this starts a new instance of the
> program instead.  Some, like Mozilla and epiphany, have internal logic
> to just open a new window rather than start a new instance of the
> program.  Most simpler programs, however, do not, so you get an extra
> Gnucash, or Print Manager, etc.
>
>  - double-clicking a launcher is the same, only twice as bad.  You get
> TWO instances of a program attempting to start at the same time.  That's
> slow, and for programs without a clear startup notification, often an
> impatient user will try clicking again to fix things.  Then (early in
> this transition) they would come and ask me why nothing's working.  By
> the time I got there, there would be half a dozen Mozilla windows
> stacked up.

I just bumped into http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75796 which
seems to be describing this very problem.

You might want to add a comment there?

regards,

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