On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's a common use case (and probably the reason why that feature got added > in the first place): > > You're looking through your file manager at a directory full of text > documents, and you double-click on whole a bunch of them to edit them in > gedit. It would be nice if they all opened in the same editor instance > (i.e., in a new tab), rather than having dozens of separate editor windows > open up. (I use this functionality all the time, and find it very helpful.) > > Having a "New Tab" button doesn't solve this problem at all. The only thing > that does solve it is the ability for an existing gedit window be able to > get notified about the "open another document" request. And that requires > dbus (or similar) to make it happen. > Oh, I did not realize that. I have always found that issue to be a big flaw of gui file managers. So that's the whole point of single instance application and libunique [1] that JGC just mentioned. Of course :) But so it actually means that every application that you can potentially launch on multiple files (from a file manager) would benefit from using libunique (which implies dbus)... or the equivalent functionality on top of dbus... or the equivalent functionality without using a standard interface which would be a big mess ? If I got that right, I find it quite funny and ironical that a clueless and endless ranting about dbus ended up making me understand the coolness of dbus. [1] http://live.gnome.org/LibUnique
