[arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?

[Dwight Schauer]

gedit --help shows --new-window.
I don't see what issue is....

Dwight

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:38:02 +0100
> schrieb fons at kokkinizita.net:
>
>> THAT is completely irrelevant. I never claimed
>> to be forced to use it.
>
> THAT is completely relevant. You don't want a text editor which uses
> IPC so don't use one.
>
>> The point is that you can allow a user to have multiple
>> tabs by providing an interface to request a new tab.
>> This still leaves the user the choice not to have new
>> tab by starting a new instance instead of using the
>> new tab option. Providing this does not require IPC.
>
> And what? The gedit devs want to use IPC and they likely have reasons
> for this. If you don't like this don't use gedit or file a bug report
> to gedit upstream.
>
>> Instead of this, you prefer to limit the user's choice
>> by creating a new tab even if the user starts a new
>> instance. This removes a valuable choice.
>
> This is indeed a valuable choice, choosing between opening a new
> instance which requires more resources than opening a new tab which
> requires less resources. I bet you can configure if a text file should
> be opened in a new instance or in a new tab. Otherwise don't click on
> the new tab but start a new instance.
>
> Other option: Use mousepad. It can only handle one file at a time.
> Every file is opened in a separate instance.
>
> Or use nano, also no multi-file editor. And there's still echo.
>
> Which choice is removed by gedit?
>
> Heiko
>