Feature Requests item #914311, was opened at 2004-03-11 13:17 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=914311&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Dimitris (sehh) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: multiple instances should not be allowed Initial Comment: Gaim should not allow multiple instances of itself to load. If a second gaim is started while the first is still running, then the first instance will loose connectivity due to the new connection that the second gaim will initiate with the ICQ or MSN server. The correct procedure would be to silently die if another gaim is already running. Thus it helps scripts or startup sessions to correctly work without causing any error messages. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 10:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Megan Schneider (ciran) Date: 2006-08-14 14:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=801517 Adding comments from #1067301: on startup, sometimes, gnome starts gaim twice once because it's supposed to because it's in the session conf. and twice because it ran when i closed gnome... or some other reason. thing is, one disconnects the other and starting up takes about 10 clicks on gaim. could you add an option to prevent multiple instances? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dimitris (sehh) Date: 2004-03-15 19:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=457614 I've got many apps that dont allow multiple instances, like for example, sylpheed-claws (email client) and gkrellm (stat monitor). The point here, is that this behavior is application specific. So for example, starting multiple OpenOffice instances is the proper way to do it. But starting multiple instances of gaim is not something your every day user would do. As i was already told, there are developer-specific reasons for allowing multiple instances, but in practice it makes users life harder. I think it would be wiser to add a commandline parameter which allows multiple instances, and make the default operation to only allow a single gaim instance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Doliner (thekingant) Date: 2004-03-15 18:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=20979 Are there many other applications that don't allow multiple instances? This seems a lot more common in Windows than in Linux. The only apps I can think of in Linux are web browsers and xmms. Web browsers handle not starting multiple instances by using ugly shell scripts (and remote commands, but that's not exactly related). You could write a shell script for Gaim to make sure it doesn't start itself more than once, if you wanted. I'm not sure how windows deals with multiple instances, but it's definitely something Herman would have to do, as I'm pretty sure it would be windows specific. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dimitris (sehh) Date: 2004-03-12 12:31 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=457614 Understood. In my defence, i've sort of lost my patience in the past months while waiting for 0.76 and all the requested features that we've been waiting for some years now. i guess i should just stop complaining and just wait :] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-12 11:41 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 I use multiple instances to test gaim's ability to handle disconnects, to test gaim's ability to support being on multiple times with those protocols that support it, to use different accounts (there is a -a flag to start to the account editor, and a -n flag to simply disable autologin and start to the signon screen) when i don't want to use the ability to have multiple accounts on, and to test experimental trees without disrupting my normal use. now naturally, me being a developer, most of the above is related to development, but i see far more of gaim use than you do for much the same reason, and this feature that you call a bug is something that we get litterally just as much praise for as complaints. thus its something that we might otherwise consider making optional, except for tendencies to call us lazy as below. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-12 11:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 i'd be curious to see what definition of "most" you are using when there are 6022 items still in the bug tracker, 703 of which are open, and only 1467 items in the feature request tracker, 740 of which are open, and MANY of which are duplicate, whereas very few of the 703 bugs are duplicate. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dimitris (sehh) Date: 2004-03-12 05:09 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=457614 Its interesting that most bug reports get a similar answer, gaim must be highly developed in that sense, since most things which seem broken to everyone are actualy designed to be that way.... So what do you use this 'feature' for? why would you want to run a second gaim in order to make the first gaim loose connectivity? At that point ofcourse both gaims get messed up since the first instance will try to re-connect, thus the second instance will loose connectivity, but at that point the second instance will also start to re-connect. Interesting.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-11 22:23 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 no insult intended, but that's like me saying "i'm to stupid to think, so I'm going to assume someone else is lazy". seriously, try to use some common sense. my first comment was mearly me saying i have no intention of calling a bug something that functions exactly as intended. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dimitris (sehh) Date: 2004-03-11 20:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=457614 no insult intended, but i guess thats your "we can't be bothered" excuse so you dont have to do any coding :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2004-03-11 16:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 just because you can't think of a use for it, does nto mean its not worth having. I use this frequently. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=914311&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
