Re: Double-click on application in wmdock does not launch the application if one instance is already running

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Josip Deanovic wrote:
> My conclusion here is that the docked appicon still acts as an appicon
> which is not intuitive but its probably correct from the windowmaker
> design (look and feel) perspective.

In my opinion it is more intuitive than having a docked appicon behave 
differrently. The dock is really just a place to attach appicons to, they 
are still appicons. This is how it was working in *step and how it still 
works on OS X.

> Windowmaker up until and including 0.95.3 would allow subsequent double
> clicks on the docked appicon to start new instances of the application
> which was probably incorrect from the windowmaker design (look and feel)
> perspective but some people learned to use that "feature".

I've never seen this behaviour but maybe I've skipped the buggy versions 
that had this "feature" or used settings where this didn't happen. Double 
click raised app windows and Ctrl+DblClick started another instance 
whenever I've tried. The ability to use Ctrl+DblClick on undocked appicons 
was added recently, previously it only worked on the dock/clip.

> Instead, I would like to propose a new option under the "Application
> Specific" options, in the application attributes winow which would:
> - make docked appicon behave more like an launcher for the application
>  instead of the application's instance appicon
> - allow double click and subsequent double clicks on the docked appicon
>  to launch new instances of the application
>
> Users would then be able to drag an appicon to the dock and configure
> the window attributes in a way that the docked appicon doesn't ack as
> a docked appicon but as a launcher which would be much more intuitive
> taking into account the year we live in. :-)

Window attributes are app specific. This setting seems to be a dock/clip 
option so maybe it should be a pref setting for dock/clip instead. A 
window attribute does not make much sense here unless you want it 
selectively for different apps, but that's really bad ergonomics as that 
would be very confusing if icons for different apps would behave 
differently when docked. So this looks more like a dock feature to me to 
have click on running appicon start new instance more like a launcher.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan


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