Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Sep 2009 12:31 UTC
Have you ever been bitten by accidentally loading multiple instances of the same application in GNOME? When you click on the launcher of an already-running application in GNOME, it will load up another instance of the same application, instead of switching to the already running one. This can lead to bugs and other unforeseen behaviour, which of course isn't desirable. In GNOME 3, this issue has been resolved.
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Member since:2007-03-13
in the linked article comment section the idea of multiple word processors was brought up. Someone explained that what's actually happening is that the wordprocessor just opens up a second window and not a second instance of the running program. So when you're viewing two documents in OOo side by side, you're actually running one copy of OOo but with two windows.
So as long as applications are smart enough to open new windows when needed, it shouldn't be much of a problem.
On a personal note, I think it would take some time getting used to using this. In the linked article it was suggested that maybe a middle click would open up a second instance of the app. Think this would make it easier to adapt/use.
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It shouldn't be the app who decides how the user wants to use it. When you launch an app there should be the option to either switch to existing or to start a new one (e.g. lclick:switch,rclick&option:launch new).
There are countless occasions when I use several different instances of the same app (browsers, word processors/text editors, IDEs, terminals), without the expectation that when one instance crashes it takes all instances with it (that would happen if a "new window" isn't a real new process and this issue isn't handled at application level).