+1 Not all apps are the same. Some are basically singletons (firefox, evolution, rhythmbox, etc), while others clearly are not and should default to multiple instances. The best examples I can think of have already been mentioned: terminals and file managers.
Jesse On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]>wrote: > Le jeudi 04 août 2011 à 22:50 +0200, Florian Müllner a écrit : > > Slightly off-topic, but I consider it quite interesting that almost > > everyone complaining about shell's single-window approach picks the > > terminal as example. We would probably get rid of all complains by > > special-casing terminals, without the inconsistency being noticed - > > "normal" people don't use terminals, geeks apparently don't use > > anything else ... > 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. > > > Regards > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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