On 12/18/05, Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > Simple things don't even work, like, if I click a media link that opens > > an external player, then it finishes playing, then I click another link, > > rather than opening in the same player it launches a new one. > > Eventually I have 50 media players open. > > It's not the job of the browser to keep accounting on external apps. > If it were, it'd be doomed to failure anyhow - that task can never be > accomplished. > > Rather, it is up to the individual applications to do the right thing > if there is a session already open. > > xmms has worked the way you seem to expect since its inception. At some point I managed to get it not to do that and I don't know how I did it. I upgraded and now it opens in the same window, toasting my previous song list. I prefer it to open a bunch of windows myself.
