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:
> On Monday 2015-06-22 15:06:36 BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Yes, you would have to set the "Shared application icon" option in the
> application attributes window.

But I was using that setting all the time and still never seen just double 
click launching new instance. Does not matter though.

> I have suggested application attributes window because there are already
> "Shared application icon" and "No application icon" options and they both
> allow you to configure some applications to act different then the others.
> So it seems to be logical place for such option if its going to be added
> in the future.

These are app specific settings and the shared app icon is really a 
workaround for apps that don't set their resources correctly or run as 
separate instances under X. For example terminal emulators are typically 
run as one instance per window but useful to group them under the same app 
icon to emulate the Terminal.app which is a single app with multiple 
windows so would have a single app icon.

But to make the dock behave like a launcher and have it launch new 
instances on clicking the icon of a running app is more like a dock 
setting to me not an app specific setting, that's why I thought it does 
not belong in that window but somewhere else in preferences. But I don't 
mind as long as the original behaviour is not broken.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan


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