GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 112497
Window/tab behavior when running another instance (eg. evo links)
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When I use dingus clicking, or click on a link in evolution, Epiphany jumps to the current desktop. This is less than an ideal situation. If I'm reading bugmail, I prefer to open all my bugs in tabs, and then switch to that desktop to do bugzilla work. There are other situations that I won't describe. Please make epiphany stay where _I_ Put it. Thanks
Theres a contradiction here. 1. Users want the epiphany window to be presented when they choose app->internet->web browser and are using always tabs pref. 2. but if you present it, it is moved to the current workspace, we have no control over this (afaict). so whats the decision? Raising the window whenever you open something in it seems pretty sane to me and is what I'd expect most likely.
gedit seems to have the same behavior as epiphany here.
Eeeeh on another bug people wants the tab pref to be ignored, and a new window to be opened. I think in galeon1 we had a command line switch to not raise window ....
well the question is how do we treat the always tab pref. Is it true mdi? That is sort of how we are leaning correct?
Ihmo the true MDI thing is going to make some people unhappy. I think many people use that pref just to have middle click open in tabs, with an use similar to your. Prolly someone should try to think to the big picture and get some feedback on mailing lists. I'm not very motivated though ... not a tab lover ;)
Here in lies the core problem. We need to design how that pref works, and what the expected behavior, just throwing stuff in will lead to crack and feature creep and will basically fudge the ui. So i'm incline to say leave this alone until a serious design proposal is made.
*** Bug 112891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 107305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ok so I made it open a new window now. I think it's the best short time solution. Still designing the behavior would be important.
*** Bug 116810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Evolution summary news links still open in separate epiphany windows, instead of opening in tabs of current open window. So, when an epiphany window is already opened, the command line epiphany "http://www.gnome.org" should open the page in a new tab, not in a separate window. -n/-w options should force the respective openings regardless of Open in new tab setting, but respect it when -n/-w are not present.
resolving wontfix. We sort of settled on the current behavior.