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

[Thomas Martitz]

On 05.03.2010 22:49, Dominic Hopf wrote:
> 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
>    

I only expect this for apps which are truly multi-instance aware. This 
doesn't apply for geany. And even then, the desktop icon could have the 
-i in the run command and you would achieve the same. I think the 
desktop icon is well in the hands of geany (IIRC make/.waf install 
creates some shortcuts which we could define to have -i).

For example, I expect this from apps like OpenOffice where a new 
instance is merely a new document. But I don't expect this from e.g. 
Pidgin where it's clear that 2 instances won't work well (and in fact, 
opening pidgin via some icon on the desktop/in the menus just raises the 
current instance).

I disagree with this being a window manager function. The system should 
just try to create a new instance. The app then decides whether to open 
a new instance or not (the current behavior).

Best regards.