2009/5/20 James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@xxxxxxx>:> Dotan Cohen wrote:>>> You are correct. I did find the dialog that I used in KDE-3 and checked>>> the box, but more research indicates that it simply does not work. So,>>> you need to file a bug report. This is a problem, not a feature>>> request. Please post the bug number here.>>>>>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191846>>> I think that the remote opening is a separate issue from using a default> session.
Remote opening? To what are you referring?
> Although, you could also argue that the behavior in KDE-3.5 is> strange and, therefore, a bug.>
I though that the KDE 3 behaviour was logical: trying to open anotherinstance would open a new tab (document) in Kate, so long as the userconfigured it for such.
> Actually, I would argue that remote opening should either be the default> behavior and the command line option be changed to "+u" to disable this,> or there should be 'desktop' files (menu entries) for both. I note that> The GIMP is installed as remote opening *only* by default although it> is possible to install it the other way if you want.>> That is, would you ever want more than one instance of the same session?
Yes, when making multiple changes to the HTML code of a particularwebsite, for instance.
> That is unless you opened additional windows from the application?>> However, if it doesn't work the same in KDE-4.2 or KDE-Trunk as it does> in KDE-3.5, that is a bug, not a wish-list item and we need a separate> bug report for that.>
KDE devs consider deviation from KDE 3 to _not_ be a bug. Same formissing features. It is as if KDE 4 is a separate project entirely,which in essence it is. Requests for "KDE3-like" are feature requests,not bugs.
-- Dotan Cohen
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