Wow, that was quick. Thanks. This is a great workaround. I am definitely not for putting a whole bunch of menu items. It is just that the Mac likes its menus. :)
Brilliant work, it is much nicer this way. Rohan On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:03 PM, John J. Foerch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:01:34PM -0500, John J. Foerch wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:59:19PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote: >> > Hey all, >> > >> > I have been using a mac for work lately, and have installed conkeror >> > there (second app after emacs). >> > >> > What I have noticed is that xulrunner runs with a minimal menu (one >> > list, with a quit item). Normally that would not be a probelem, >> > except that the way the mac and spaces works it makes it an involved >> > process to get a new window. Macs work on the one instance for >> > everything, and switching brings up the current instance, which you >> > then ask to make a new window, e.g. in emacs this would be C-x 5 2. >> > >> > This is not possible with the way conkeror works on the mac, and I was >> > wondering if anyone has found a solution to this. >> > >> > Btw. just so you know, I have explicitly set spaces to NOT switch to >> > the nearest workspace with an open window. Another thing is that I >> > tried making a launch script to have conkeror launch a new instance >> > each time it is called, but I run into the "There is already an >> > instance of xulrunner running, so we won't run another" Which would >> > be okay, if there was some way to pass to the application on the >> > commandline to please open a new window. >> > >> > Another P.S. At the moment what I do, is find the nearest window, do a >> > C-x 5 f, and then take the new window to the new workspace, but you >> > can imagine that this is far from ideal. >> >> >> So you're saying there should be a "New Window" item in the menu? Sounds >> good to me. I'll follow-up later after I push that. > > > Following up, there is now a partial fix in place. I thought it would be > good to put the notes from my investigations out into the world, so here > goes. > > The fundamental problem is that Xulrunner does not support command line > remoting on OS X. Instead of remoting the command line to the running > instance, Xulrunner just displays that error window "Conkeror is already > running, and you can only run one instance at a time." Due to this bug, > you can only get a new window from an old window. There are four possible > approaches to deal with this problem: > > 1) wait for mozilla to fix command line remoting on OS X. (this is what > we've been doing so far) > > 2) rewrite our command line handler to run inside of a hidden-window, > instead of an nsICommandLineHandler component. this is not out of the > question, but i can't make the time for it right now. > > 3) add a menu system and enable it with javascript that only runs on OS > X. it would be a single menu with a single command. i'm not in favor > of this approach because it adds an entire mouse-only gui element to > the program for the sake of one command, opening the floodgates to a > user-interface paradigm that we have been working to avoid since day > one. > > 4) there are a small number of special menu items that, when present in a > hidden menu in our XUL, will get put into the OS X application menu by > Xulrunner. This is how the Quit menu item is set up. Unfortunately, > we can't put any arbitrary thing in that menu, but we can repurpose > one of the special ones to be a "New Window" menu item. > > > Combining 1 and 4 seems a sensible thing to do right now. Although 4 is > a hack by any standard, 2 and 3 are bigger hacks still, considering that > our original purpose is to work around a Mozilla bug. I still have hope > that the Mozilla bug will be fixed "soon". > > I prefaced this message by saying a "partial fix", and it is indeed > partial because the code I pushed does not work when there are no open > windows at all. This is a current limitation in Conkeror's interactive > system---an assumption that commands will only be called when there is an > open window. So I will try to address that problem soon, appreciate your > patience, and for the time being, (OS X users), don't close all of your > windows! > > Thanks all, > > -- > John Foerch > _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
