Could inkscape be made to check if it's aready running and not open new instances? I've never really understood the need for multiple instances in any application that can handle multiple files/windows.
Yes, there are ways of doing that. I think we just need a volunteer to research and implement. Don't know if it's an easy thing or more involved... If anyone's interested in hacking on it, I can help give some pointers to where to start.
Firefox on Linux does it by having the executable "firefox" be a shell script which checks for an instance of mozilla-firefox (the real binary). mozilla-firefox has a command line argument to have the named instance instance open a new window.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, is there way to open a new window in a running instance of Inkscape? If so, a similar aproach could be taken.
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