Re: Unidentified subject! (Two Balsas crash)

["Phil Groce" <phil_groce cmcsmart com>]

At 12:08 PM 12/7/99 +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
>No, no, no.  Please no!
>
>Running an application twice should run it twice.  This is a real
>operating system, not a toy one.


Purely as an interested lurker (who's looking to become a tester/user as 
soon as the next version comes out)....

If a user clicks on the app icon a second time, they may or may not know 
there's another instance out there. Why not pop a dialog that asks the user 
if they want to start another instance or work in the existing one? If the 
user selects to work in existing, bring the app to the foreground. I don't 
know if it should move to the current desktop, though....

Personlly, I like the option to run multiple instances, but I don't want 
the app to assume I want that, because I usually don't with email.

Back into the shadows....

>Jules

Phil Groce