[Geany-devel] multiple instance save-settings - Re: Race condition when saving geany.conf

[Dominic Hopf]

Am Freitag, den 05.03.2010, 16:54 +0000 schrieb Nick Treleaven:
> On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:50:28 +0100
> Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz at student.HTW-Berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> > >> (If a second instance of geany is run without passing filenames to the
> > >> first, -i is implied).
> > >>
> > >>      
> > > I really like this idea. It is simple to understand, rather
> > > convenient and uniform with the behaviour of "new-instances", i.e.,
> > > those instances should not touch any global data, either the default
> > > session or the settings.
> > >    
> > 
> > Shouldn't it just bring the existing instance on top without creating a 
> > new instance? That's what I would expect (i.e. you only get a new 
> > instance if you use -i).
> 
> The idea is that the user can just click the desktop icon to get a new
> window. Raising an existing window is a Window Manager function IMO.

That's exactly the behaviour I'd expect too. :)

Regards,
Dominic

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