On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 13:18 +0100, Thomas Prost wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2012, 06:41 -0500 schrieb Matthew Barnes: > > 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 > In between there are those "intelligent" ones, that tell you, that there > already is an instance running and ask you "Start Anyway ?" ;-)
Yep. Then I growl at the screen and mutter "Uh, yea, that is why I deliberately clicked 'New &^@&*^@&* Window'!". :) _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
