[Geany] Per-workspace instance of Geany

[Lex Trotman]

On 24 January 2011 09:18, Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Lex Trotman wrote:
>
>> There are two issues that I see which complicate potential solutions here.
>>
>> 1. There is not AFAIK any common portable way to find out which
>> workspace Geany is running in and that a request to show a file in
>> Geany came from a different workspace, so deciding to run another
>> instance or move Geany to another workspace is going to have to be
>> solved for each system Geany runs on.  This is probably why many
>> applications are not workspace aware.
>
> Gedit does the right thing.

On MS Windows? On KDE?  Portable is the problem, you can always write
code for each platform and #if the correct set for the platform but
thats much more work to write and maintain.

If Geany only had the number of programmer hours that Gedit does ...

Cheers
Lex

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