Re: Re: Opening tabs from command line (was: Wishlist - bring back the features)

Benjamin Kahn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The workspace API is available in the libwnck library.

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:26, Crispin Flowerday wrote:
> > At the end in which window?
> > 
> > You are right, the behavior you're seeing is not good.  But you must
> > also realize it happens only if you a) open new tab from command line,
> > and b) open new tabs in background.
> > 
> > The default behavior for command line is to open a new window for
> > exactly this reason.  Similarly, if jump to new tabs is enabled, there
> > shouldn't be a problem finding the tab.  Well, except the common problem
> > of finding the window first ;)
> 
> Galeon 1 had (IMO) nice behaviour when opening a url from the command
> line. If you just said "galeon <url>" and had the open in tabs pref set,
> it scanned the open windows, if it found one on your current workspace,
> it used that, failing that it opened a new window. (also didn't it jump
> to the tab as well?)
> 
> I looked at implementing this behaviour, but got stuck at trying to work
> out which workspace a window was on. The gnome libraries seem to have
> removed the handy functions for working that out :(
> 
> The attached patch makes the --new-tab commandline option jump to the
> new tab.
-- 
Benjamin Kahn <[email protected]>



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