Thanks for the infos and script Dimitar ! 2011/1/23 Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhe...@gmail.com>
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:07:31 +1100 > Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > a. who owns the preferences? preventing multiple instances from > > changing preferences is very limiting, if they can all change them, > > who saves their set when Geany terminates? and how to lock them > > irrespective of the filesystem they reside on to prevent scrambled > > preferences? > Why not save preferences right when closing the preferences dialog ? That's what I would except as a lambda user. > > Windows: the instances are stopped one by one. The last one wins. > X11: the session management supports instances. > > > b. how do you restart multiple instances? which leads to session > > management being required, but Geany has two potential implementations > > of that and no clear path forward yet > > It has a complete sm for the current single-instance behaviour, and an > incomplete multi-instance sm for the non-implemented multi-instance > behaviour. So the real question is, do we plan to introduce any multi > instancing in Geany in the foreseeable future? If not, the last > single-instance sm applies against 5530, and is quite stable. > > > c. the same issues relating to preferences apply to project files > > being used by more than one instance, or if a project can be open in > > only one instance how to enforce that? > > The same answer as for a. and b. > > > d. and of course these also apply to the same document file being open > > in multiple instances, at logout/shutdown who's copy gets saved? how > > do you detect the fact so you can at least warn the user? remember > > that locking and the like don't work on remote filesystems. > > Both Windows and X11-sm will ask you for any modified files. > > (In the current implementation, both simply terminate.) > > -- > E-gards: Jimmy > _______________________________________________ > Geany mailing list > Geany@uvena.de > http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany >
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