Keep Inkscape running after closing single or last document (survey)?
All:
Who would like Inkscape to keep running after you close a single document or the last document so that you can immediately start a new document without relaunching Inkscape? I find this behaviour very annoying and contrary to the way most document-oriented applications on all operating systems work.
MDI type applications (such as OpenOffice.org) keep a blank grey window frame open into which you can start a new document. SDI type applications (such as the open-source Notepad++ on Windows) open a new blank document when you close the last open document. Gimp keeps a small "launch" palette open when all documents are closed.
File > Close should close documents (creating a new empty document if only one document is open). File > Quit should close ALL open documents (giving you the chance to save unsaved work) and then close the Inkscape application.
The window frame should have an application-instance close [X] icon at the RH end and the menu bar should have a document close X icon at the RH end.
Refer to these bug/enhancement requests at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ that also request that Inkscape not quit when a document is closed:
#170550, open blank document on 'close' #171935, OSX Don't close the application when closing Inkscape window #171596, Reorganize UI when closing document [MDI] #170803, Close document vs. Quit program
Please post your preference to the list and identify yourself as an end-user, developer, or both, and what platforms you use Inkscape on. I am just an end-user on Windows and Ubuntu, using v. 0.46.
Regards, Hedley
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On May 4, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Hedley Finger wrote:
MDI type applications
Just FYI, MDI itself was generally considered a poor choice once computers could run more than one program at once, and Microsoft themselves officially deprecated it as of the release of Windows 95.
I think that just keeping a blank document open is a nice way to have inkscape pre-loaded and not having to relaunch it each time.
What I would really request instead is that, whenever Inkscape is executed, it to check for already existing instances. If one such exists, then it just creates a new document in that instance of Inkscape, instead of opening a completely new instance of the application. This would be nice because:
- The time to open a new inkscape document would be greatly reduced once you already have a running instance -- whenever you click on the inkscape icon in your launch bar, or type the command in the terminal, you'd get a new empty document to play with.
- The new document would join the previously running ones, and copy-and-paste would work between them. Right now, if you re-launch inkscape you can't copy-paste between the two instances.
- Possibly some other reasons I can't think of now..
Denís.
2008/5/5 Jon A. Cruz <jon@...204...>:
On May 4, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Hedley Finger wrote:
MDI type applications Just FYI, MDI itself was generally considered a poor choice once computers could run more than one program at once, and Microsoft themselves officially deprecated it as of the release of Windows 95.
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On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:57:32 +0200 "Denís Fernández Cabrera" <denis@...2126...> wrote:
I think that just keeping a blank document open is a nice way to have inkscape pre-loaded and not having to relaunch it each time.
What I would really request instead is that, whenever Inkscape is executed, it to check for already existing instances. If one such exists, then it just creates a new document in that instance of Inkscape, instead of opening a completely new instance of the application. This would be nice because:
- The time to open a new inkscape document would be greatly reduced
once you already have a running instance -- whenever you click on the inkscape icon in your launch bar, or type the command in the terminal, you'd get a new empty document to play with.
- The new document would join the previously running ones, and
copy-and-paste would work between them. Right now, if you re-launch inkscape you can't copy-paste between the two instances.
- Possibly some other reasons I can't think of now..
Denís.
This is something I would very much like to see as well.
Currently I usually start Inkscape by clicking on a document, then use the file browser for any others I need, but this is vary inconvenient.
I wonder how this behaviour would 'influence' one of Inkscape's most annoying draw-backs: the inpossibility to copy objects between unrelated inkscape-instances. I'm not a programmer, but I can image that if one window stays open, the chance is much bigger that two open windows are 'instances' of eachother, so that copy-ing and pasting between Inkscape documents goes much easier. :/ :\ *thinking*
Even if this idea is voted out, it might solve the copy-problem maybe? If Inkscape could always be 'sleeping' somewhere in the background, but instantiating a document-window whenever somebody 'opens' Inkscape?
Or has this issue been fixed in .46?
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On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:57:32 +0200 "Denís Fernández Cabrera" <denis@...2126...> wrote:
I think that just keeping a blank document open is a nice way to have inkscape pre-loaded and not having to relaunch it each time.
What I would really request instead is that, whenever Inkscape is executed, it to check for already existing instances. If one such exists, then it just creates a new document in that instance of Inkscape, instead of opening a completely new instance of the application. This would be nice because:
- The time to open a new inkscape document would be greatly reduced
once you already have a running instance -- whenever you click on the inkscape icon in your launch bar, or type the command in the terminal, you'd get a new empty document to play with.
- The new document would join the previously running ones, and
copy-and-paste would work between them. Right now, if you re-launch inkscape you can't copy-paste between the two instances.
- Possibly some other reasons I can't think of now..
Denís.
This is something I would very much like to see as well.
Currently I usually start Inkscape by clicking on a document, then use the file browser for any others I need, but this is vary inconvenient.
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Maarten van der Velde wrote:
: the inpossibility to copy objects between unrelated inkscape-instances.
actually, you can copy-paste between different instances, as of about March 26 or so. see https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170185
Hedley, I am an end user and use win2000. I am all in favour of having Inkscape keep running after closing the last document. The current switch-off behaviour has driven me quietly insane for so long..............There may have been a good reason for the present behaviour in the distant past but if so I've long since forgotten what it was but the current behaviour continues to irritate. Erik Hedley wrote:
Who would like Inkscape to keep running after you close a single document or the last document so that you can immediately start a new document without relaunching Inkscape? I find this behaviour very annoying and contrary to the way most document-oriented applications on all operating systems work.
MDI type applications (such as OpenOffice.org) keep a blank grey window frame open into which you can start a new document. SDI type applications (such as the open-source Notepad++ on Windows) open a new blank document when you close the last open document. Gimp keeps a small "launch" palette open when all documents are closed.
File > Close should close documents (creating a new empty document if only one document is open). File > Quit should close ALL open documents (giving you the chance to save unsaved work) and then close the Inkscape application.
The window frame should have an application-instance close [X] icon at the RH end and the menu bar should have a document close X icon at the RH end.
Refer to these bug/enhancement requests at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/ that also request that Inkscape not quit when a document is closed:
#170550, open blank document on 'close' #171935, OSX Don't close the application when closing Inkscape window #171596, Reorganize UI when closing document [MDI] #170803, Close document vs. Quit program
Please post your preference to the list and identify yourself as an end-user, developer, or both, and what platforms you use Inkscape on. I am just an end-user on Windows and Ubuntu, using v. 0.46.
Regards, Hedley
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On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 16:08 +1000, Hedley Finger wrote:
All:
Who would like Inkscape to keep running after you close a single document or the last document so that you can immediately start a new document without relaunching Inkscape? I find this behaviour very annoying and contrary to the way most document-oriented applications on all operating systems work.
In UNIX, there is a sticky bit. When set, it keeps the image of the program in memory for a short time after the last close; the exact amount is determined when the OS is compiled.
To set it on your machine:
sudo chmod a+t `which inkscape`
Please post your preference to the list and identify yourself as an end-user, developer, or both, and what platforms you use Inkscape on. I am just an end-user on Windows and Ubuntu, using v. 0.46.
I agree that something along these lines would be better than the current way Inkscape behaves. I'm not sure that just staying open with a blank document would be the best approach, but it definitely sounds better than how it behaves currently.
I am currently only an end user, on Windows XP and Ubuntu and Fedora.
Quasar
my vote would be as follows : - keep the existing SDI with one change - when you choose File | Open, it should check to see if the document has changed, if so, it should ask whether you want to save it - after the prompt has been dealt with, it should load the new document into the existing instance of Inkscape without creating a new instance.
--------- three follow ups:
- if Linux requires a time delay to clear stuff, that should not be a problem , it will still be much less than currently occurring - the main argument against the SDI is the copy/paste problem that previously existed, but that has been fixed - am not a big fan of blank documents, that is what the File | New command is for, and it works very well ...
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:42 -0700, Alvin Penner wrote:
- if Linux requires a time delay to clear stuff, that should not be a
problem , it will still be much less than currently occurring
Linux does not require any delays in shutting down an application.
What Linux and BSD can to is delay re-using the memory that holds the application code. Since the code is still in memory, restarting is very quick. All UNIXes have had this ability since the mid-70s.
On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:57:32 +0200, "Denís Fernández Cabrera" <denis@...2126...> wrote:
What I would really request instead is that, whenever Inkscape is executed, it to check for already existing instances.
There are some subtleties which would need to be addressed, but generally I think this is a good idea.
- The new document would join the previously running ones, and
copy-and-paste would work between them. Right now, if you re-launch inkscape you can't copy-paste between the two instances.
This problem is now fixed in trunk actually.
-mental
Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote:
Linux does not require any delays in shutting down an application.
- woops, sorry about that, I got a little carried away (actually, being a Windows person, the concept of time delays seemed perfectly normal to me, part of the cost of doing business in Windows)
- one more comment, namely that in an SDI interface, it seems kind of redundant to have a File | Close option.
participants (10)
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Abrolag -
Alvin Penner -
Denís Fernández Cabrera -
Hedley Finger -
Jon A. Cruz -
kaver -
Maarten van der Velde -
MenTaLguY -
Mr. Shawn H. Corey -
Quasar Jarosz