On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 06:41 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 06:22 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > In the dash currently open applications are illuminated and clicking an > > illuminated icon takes you to the open application. Or you can > > right-click on an illuminated application and select and existing window > > or "New Windows" to make a new window / instance on the current > > workspace. > Following up... > The "New Window" action in GNOME Shell is equivalent to clicking the > application's launcher icon: it sends the already-running instance of > the application an "activate" signal. > The documentation for the "activate" signal [1] does not specify how > applications are supposed to handle it. Some applications like GNOME > Terminal actually do open a new window, some applications like GEdit > open a new tab in its primary window, and some applications like > Evolution and Rhythmbox merely raise its primary window to the top.
Agree, Evolution is not the only app that behaves 'wrong' [it doesn't do what the text of the menu item describes]. It is just one of the applications I use all-day-long. Figured I'd at least shake-the-tree about it. > I guess that's why it appears to not be doing anything for you. No, it does 'something' [generates a notification], it just doesn't do the expected thing. > This is a design flaw in GNOME Shell in my opinion. The "activate" > signal is too ambiguous to assign a descriptive label. > The discussion in bug 650030 [2] kinda sorta addresses this, but it > remains an open GNOME Shell issue. Thanks for the follow-up. > [1] > http://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GApplication.html#GApplication-activate > [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650030 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
