[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Julien Nicoulaud]

Thanks for the infos and script Dimitar !

2011/1/23 Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhekov at gmail.com>

> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:07:31 +1100
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > a. who owns the preferences? preventing multiple instances from
> > changing preferences is very limiting, if they can all change them,
> > who saves their set when Geany terminates? and how to lock them
> > irrespective of the filesystem they reside on to prevent scrambled
> > preferences?
>
Why not save preferences right when closing the preferences dialog ? That's
what I would except as a lambda user.


>
> Windows: the instances are stopped one by one. The last one wins.
> X11: the session management supports instances.
>
> > b. how do you restart multiple instances? which leads to session
> > management being required, but Geany has two potential implementations
> > of that and no clear path forward yet
>
> It has a complete sm for the current single-instance behaviour, and an
> incomplete multi-instance sm for the non-implemented multi-instance
> behaviour. So the real question is, do we plan to introduce any multi
> instancing in Geany in the foreseeable future? If not, the last
> single-instance sm applies against 5530, and is quite stable.
>
> > c. the same issues relating to preferences apply to project files
> > being used by more than one instance, or if a project can be open in
> > only one instance how to enforce that?
>
> The same answer as for a. and b.
>
> > d. and of course these also apply to the same document file being open
> > in multiple instances, at logout/shutdown who's copy gets saved? how
> > do you detect the fact so you can at least warn the user? remember
> > that locking and the like don't work on remote filesystems.
>
> Both Windows and X11-sm will ask you for any modified files.
>
> (In the current implementation, both simply terminate.)
>
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