Well, for me personally most of the time I want the currently running application (being firefox, terminal, etc) to be brought up if I tried to open a new instance (as it's likely I forgot it was already open). If I need a new instance of a certain application I'm most likely using it at that point and it's much easier to hit ctrl-n (or ctrl-shift-n for terminal) than it is to use the dock. On a side note, if you often use multiple terminals why not use Terminator? seems to be the best for the job IMHO.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Holger Berndt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Do, 04.08.2011 23:23, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > >>I think that terminals are only the best example of this situation. >>While most apps best behave as single-instance, a few of them are >>multiple-instance, and we still expect a click to open a new window: >>terminal, file manager (to open several folders separately), word >>processor. Maybe special-casing them wouldn't be too disturbing, indeed. > > Instead of special-casing selected applications, it may make sense to > define a .desktop-file key that specifys: "I am a multi-mainwindow > application". > > Holger > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > -- Diego Fernandez - 爱国 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
