GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 144516
Missing "open new window"
Last modified: 2005-09-28 22:10:01 UTC
not in UI proposal: add item "open new window" in main menu
Created attachment 37192 [details] [review] The patch creates "New Window" & "Close" Menu item in File Menu. The New window opens new devhelp window and Close menu item closes the current window.
*** Bug 307022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We shouldn't create a new base for each window, that wastes memory and time. I'm wondering how to deal with the -s command line option. It's used from for example emacs and brings up the window with a new search in it. If there are several windows, I'm not sure how to best do that. Do we look for a window on the current desktop and use it if there is one, and otherwise bring on of the open windows to that desktop? Same when just launching devhelp a second time. Currently we are bringing the already opened window to the current desktop.
Aside from implementation details, what's the stance on permitting multiple devhelp windows to allow e.g. side-by-side browsing of related functions?
The above are not implementation details, they are behavior-related details that need to be thought through before adding support for multiple windows. I'm not sure which is best, multiple windows or multiple tabs, I'd rather just have one of those.
I went ahead and modified the patch a bit and added better support for handling multiple windows with searching through -s. Adding tabs should work nicely now if we want that.