[Impact]

The bug prevents users from launching a second instance of gthumb.

This feature is sometimes useful, for example, when opening a few images
in a row from a file manager - it might open a new instance of gthumb.

In addition, second instance fails to run without any messages (unless
you run it from terminal), which is confusing to the users.

The fix had been already applied upstream a few years ago, and it would be nice 
to backport it to Trusty.
The debdiff which is attached to this report contains the backported patch.

[Test Case]

Steps to reproduce:

- launch one instance of gthumb from terminal: gthumb &
- try launching a second instance: gthumb

Expected result:

- second instance would open normally

What really happens:

- second instance shows error message and quits immediately:

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Application does
not handle command line arguments

[Regression Potential]

The fix had been applied upstream a few years ago, so it had been tested
since then.

It was also tested by Utopic/Vivid/Wily users as it was included in
gthumb 3.2.8 in these releases.

I consider the regression potential to be low here.

** Tags added: patch

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  Mint 17/Ubuntu 14.04 - can only launch one instance of gthumb

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