Re: [Inkscape-devel] Avoiding opening new instances

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:

With regards to the OS needing to handle this: Yes, I can definitely see Bulia's point, in an ideal world the OS would take care of this kind of thing. But we don't live in that world (unfortunately).

Sure, I'm not proposing to go patch OSes right now :) I'm just saying that adding this complexity into the application is unnatural and thus should be avoided _if possible_. Historically there were two reasons to push for single-instance: copy/paste not working between instances and slow start. We've fixed the first one, and if we can tackle the second one the single-instance stuff becomes simply unneeded.