Re: Release notes question

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On 2011-04-04 at 16:41, Kenneth Nielsen wrote:
> #: C/rndevelopers.xml:73(para)
> msgid ""
> "The new <classname>GtkApplication</classname> class automatically takes care "
> "of many application integration talks, including keeping track of open "
> "windows, ensuring uniqueness and exporting actions. It means that creating a "
> "GNOME application is more convenient and requires less code. This facility "
> "will be further expanded during the 3.x cycle."
> 
> It is supposed to actually say "talks" or should it have been "tasks"?

it's tasks.

> Second what is the meaning of "ensuring uniqueness". Does it mean that
> i makes sure the application is unique, and if so, what does that
> mean?

in this context, "uniqueness" means that each application maps to a
single process, regardless of the number of invocations from the
application launcher or the terminal; this has nothing to do with the
number of windows an application has or controls. to provide a GNOME
example: gedit and gnome-terminal are "unique" applications; for a
non-GNOME example: Firefox or Chrome are "unique" applications.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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