On Saturday 05 March 2011 17:57:10 Duncan wrote:
Dotan Cohen posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:56 +0200 as excerpted:
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many
instances of the same application rather than use the already-open
application. This is a user problem,
kde posted on Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:31:16 + as excerpted:
On Saturday 05 March 2011 17:57:10 Duncan wrote:
Dotan Cohen posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:56 +0200 as excerpted:
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many
instances of the same application rather than
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:16:34PM +, Duncan wrote:
kde posted on Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:31:16 + as excerpted:
Perhaps part of the problem for your seniors is kde's session management.
If they quit kde with several app instances running and kde restarts them
when it comes back up, but
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 17:59, Charles Polisher cpol...@surewest.net wrote:
Would this be a workable approach for the OP - wrap the app launch
in a generalized mechanism, let's call the mechanism Larry (as I
abhor the imprecision that comes with it, and have no better name).
Larry handles each
Dotan Cohen writes:
That's actually not a bad idea! I already run a fix-kde script when
they log into to reset the damage that they've done to the panel the
last time:
#!/bin/bash
kbuildsycoca4
kquitapp plasma-desktop
cp $HOME/.bin/kde-fix/plasma-desktoprc
Dotan Cohen writes:
That's actually not a bad idea! I already run a fix-kde script when
they log into to reset the damage that they've done to the panel the
last time:
#!/bin/bash
kbuildsycoca4
kquitapp plasma-desktop
cp $HOME/.bin/kde-fix/plasma-desktoprc
On 5 March 2011 20:31, kde@mail.kde.org wrote:
On Saturday 05 March 2011 17:57:10 Duncan wrote:
Dotan Cohen posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:56 +0200 as excerpted:
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many
instances of the same application rather than use the
On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:30:51 +0530, Steven Sroka sroka.ste...@gmail.com wrote:
Just as an aside, this is an Opera thing. Opera never likes opening
multiple windows of itself.
I just tried opening a new instance of Opera now, but it only opened a new
tab.
that's the default behavior which
Dotan Cohen writes:
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many
instances of the same application rather than use the already-open
application. This is a user problem, not a KDE problem, but I wonder
if there is technical solution.
Switching to Gnome, maybe? I think
On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:13:37 +0530, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Dotan Cohen writes:
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many
instances of the same application rather than use the already-open
application. This is a user problem, not a KDE problem, but
Dotan Cohen posted on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:07:56 +0200 as excerpted:
I have two separate cases where seniors using KDE like to open many
instances of the same application rather than use the already-open
application. This is a user problem, not a KDE problem, but I wonder if
there is
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 16:43, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Switching to Gnome, maybe? I think there the default behaviour is to not
allow multiple instances of the same application.
Thanks. I'll look into that. These users are unsavy enough to not care
about their environment.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 15:51, phanisvara das listm...@phanisvara.com wrote:
doesn't this depend on the application, not the DE? in many cases app.s can
be configured via 'settings' or conf. files, what they'll do when they are
called while an instance is running already (konqueror, per ex.).
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