[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread kde
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] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Duncan
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Charles Polisher
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Alex Schuster
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread Steven Sroka
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-06 Thread phanisvara das
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-05 Thread Alex Schuster
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-05 Thread phanisvara das
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-05 Thread Duncan
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

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
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.

[kde] Re: How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

2011-03-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
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.).