GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160616
galeon shell command does not respect "open in tabs by default" config
Last modified: 2005-04-20 09:15:09 UTC
Launching galeon from the command line with "galeon http://foobar" will open a new window disregarding the "open in tabs by default" configuration option. This is Debian bug <http://bugs.debian.org/190297>, please see the bug for a mail from Roland Stigge explaining this should be the case (I'm personally not sure whether this should be the case or not).
Actually, I have some code that brings back the old Galeon 1 behaviour of creating a new tab if there is a window available on that workspace, and a new window otherwise.
I can't see how that would hurt, cool! (Just to know, does that respect the open in tabs by default option?)
If 'open in tabs' is not set, it will always open in new windows
I've merged my change now, so hopefully 1.3.19 should act a lot better :-) http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2004-December/msg02143.html
I'm not really sure that's a good idea to open in new tab by default when launched from independent context (as opposed to middle-clicking link on page). When I open page from external app, it usually isn't related to current window contents at all, so opening it as new tab makes little sense. I'd prefer bringing old behaviour back, or at least (*yuck*) hidden pref.