Ross Burton wrote: > Primary use case for not forking is that it makes it trivial to write a > script that launches a program, user does something in it, and then the > script can continue when the program has exited. If Gedit forked when > it started I wouldn't be able to use it as $EDITOR in cvs commit for > example.
Well, in fact you can't now, because of a bug due to the single instance stuff (ie it's not blocking when you already have an instance of gedit). This might be solved by adding a --wait option or such for these case, but it's not done yet. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
