On 03/12/2007 20:48, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Drew Jensen wrote:
The problem is Quickstarter
If Quickstarter is running the action of opening the first new document
leaves the button on the task bar flashing, but does not open the window.
Yes, that's the problem.
If quickstrarter is not running double clicking a document does open the
window on the desktop.
Technically then, perhaps, OOo is correct as the application is already
running but from the users perspective it is wrong.
I agree. Perhaps we should have paid more attention to this case -
especially as the QS still is installed by default. Feel free to create
an issue (owner mba).
So perhaps that was what Harold meant by "minimized"? I thought he was
talking about a minimized OOo window but maybe I misunderstood that. If
an OOo window (minimized or not) is already open and another OOo
document is opened from the desktop it is correct to let the desktop
decide whether the focus is transferred to the new window or not.
Ciao,
Mathias
I meant that Writer is minimised in the Windows (and other GUI?) sense
i.e. there's an icon in the task bar but nothing else showing on the
desk top. For the avoidance of doubt, the thing I see is as follows:
1. Quickstarter is *not* running (I never run it).
2. I double click a Writer document in Windows Explorer. At this point
Writer opens *and* displays the document.
3. I minimise (in the Microsoft Windows sense of that word) the
Writer/document window.
4. I double click a *different* document in Windows Explorer.
5. Writer opens this second document *but does not* display it. The
Writer window stays minimised.
If I had not minimised the window i.e. if I had omitted #3 above then,
when I double click the second document it is opened *and* displayed -
actually obscuring the first document.
Now, it seems to me that the state (minimised or not) of the first
window should *not* influence the behaviour of the second. Which it
does. The second window automatically inherits the state of the first
which IMHO is entirely counter intuitive *and* wrong. In fact, the first
time I saw it I thought my installation of OO was broken because it
hadn't opened the second document. But I'm not going to waste a vote for
a fix.
Also, Mathias, please what other sense of minimise did you think I
meant? On other OS's does OO open multiple documents in the same window
and thus allow individual documents to be minimised within that window?
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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