I noticed that running an instance of vmware player creates an additional icon, 
thus reducing their sizes. And clicking the original vmware icon will create 
another vmware instance... 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Johannes Schmid" <[email protected]> 
To: [email protected] 
Cc: [email protected] 
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:56:28 PM 
Subject: Re: Gnome-3, First Impressions 

Hi! 

> 4. Gnome-shell is not allowing multiple instances of an application. Is 
> this intentional? Attempts to open a new instance opens a running 
> instance (gnome-shell faithfully brings you to the workspace occupied by 
> the active instance). Sometimes I succeed in spawning another instance 
> via the terminal ... but replicating that success wasn't always successful. 

That's a design decision. You can use the context menu (right-click) of 
the launchers to start another instance. 

Regards, 
Johannes 

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