Re: Idiot-proofing gnome

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick videotron ca>]

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:28:04 +1030
Daniel Moore <daniel a moore gmail com> wrote:

> 
> On 18/12/2007, at 4:53 PM, Karl Goetz wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 02:19 +0100, Jancio Wodnik wrote:
> >> Daniel Kasak pisze:
> >>> Greetings.
> >>>
> >>> I often get called to PCs that have 20 or so instances of
> >>> Evolution, Firefox & internal applications running. People
/snip/
> >>>
> >>> Possibly, a solution for this exists in Gnome. With startup
> >>> notification, we should be able to link an app's launcher with a  
> >>> running
> >>> instance of an app, right? So could there be an option to make app
> >>> launchers launch *only* one instance, and all further clicks on
>/snip/ 
> while initially it seems like a good idea, people do need the
> ability to launch multiple instances of the same application. Making
> this harder would degrade the user experience for the people that
> need to do that, and for the people that have no idea that they're
> launching more instances of the same application, it probably won't
> affect them.
 
  If launching the app once was an OPTION in creating the launcher the
problem wouldn't exist. Terminal launchers for example could have the
option turned off.

Cheers 

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Frank 
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