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Bug 741648 - Support multiple main windows
Support multiple main windows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: ux
master
Other Linux
: High normal
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on: 792389
Blocks: 713884 793772
 
 
Reported: 2014-12-17 13:05 UTC by Frédéric Parrenin
Modified: 2019-11-18 07:53 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Frédéric Parrenin 2014-12-17 13:05:45 UTC 
When I use email softwares, I often need multiple instances at the same time.
For example, I read previous emails when writing a new one.
In gmail, this is easy: you open multiple instances of gmail in different tabs.
But I don't find this functionnality in geary.
For me this is a must-have if I want to replace gmail by geary.
Comment 1 Robert Schroll 2014-12-17 18:59:00 UTC 
You can already move composers to separate windows.

Bug #713884 asks to be able to open individual emails in separate windows.  Are you asking for more than that?
Comment 2 Frédéric Parrenin 2014-12-17 19:08:20 UTC 
OK, thanks for the tip about the composer.
I think bug #713884 would make it for me for the remaining cases when I need two windows.
Comment 3 Robert Schroll 2014-12-17 20:37:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 713884 ***
Comment 4 Frédéric Parrenin 2014-12-27 11:30:25 UTC 
After more thoughts, I still think allowing multiple geary windows would be valuable. For example, you could have one window for checking new emails and one for searching through old emails. This would not be possible with the detach approach which only allow for a fixed view.
Actually, I just checked that the mailer on OSX allows for multiple windows.
Comment 5 Frédéric Parrenin 2017-10-30 16:50:22 UTC 
This bug still exists in 0.12.0.
Comment 6 Michael Gratton 2018-01-09 23:12:50 UTC 
I don't think tabs are appropriate, but multiple main windows definitely are something we want to be able to support.
Comment 7 Michael Gratton 2019-11-18 07:53:48 UTC 
Fix for this is landing in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/merge_requests/366, will be released in 3.36.