Quoting message written on Saturday 2014-06-07 03:34:27 by BALATON Zoltan: > On Sat, 7 Jun 2014, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > I suggest restoration of the behavior from pre-0.95.4 version > > I don't mind either way (not using that option) but isn't double click > with Ctrl pressed sufficient to launch another instance? Double click > brings forward the running application and if it behaved differently for > some applications it would be inconsistent.
I prefer to see an app icon and an app icon added to a wmdock as two different things so they don't have to operate in the the same way. In fact it worked like this until recently (up until 0.95.4). Insisting on CTRL + double-click on app icons in the wmdock or app icons in the wmdock looks awfully unintuitive and it's not practical if you tend to start multiple instances of some applications in the wmdock very often (xterm for example). I don't use app icons in the wmdock (I like to bind FN or Win key to start my terminals) but since some people decided to downgrade back to 0.95.3 when they found that the behavior in 0.95.4 and 0.95.5 has changed, it gives us the answer to a question whether CTRL + double-click is enough or not. In short, people would rather chose to stick with old 0.95.3 version than use CTRL + double-click on the wmdocked app icon. As I said, I don't use that option either but since it was there up until 0.95.4 (even in 0.80.x versions and probably earlier versions) and since it's intuitive and practical, I would suggest to bring the described behavior back to Windowmaker. In addition to that, since internal wmdrawer support came after 0.95.4 in order to keep the consistency, app icons in the wmdrawer should be able to start additional instances when double-clicked. > > BTW, what is the meaning of the "Shared application icon" option in > > the Application Specific Attributes window? > > It's what it says, that multiple instances of one application will share > a single icon. For example you can have a single icon for all terminal > windows so you can hide them at once. (Actually on *step the icons > belong to applications which can have multiple windows. So these > windows all belong to a single application and thus icon. This can be > emulated by the shared application icon when the windows are separate > instances of an X application.) Thank you for the explanation. Kind regards -- Josip Deanovic -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
