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Bug 605551 - gnome-shell Applications segment in Activities inconsistency with gedit
gnome-shell Applications segment in Activities inconsistency with gedit
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 744184
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-12-27 16:28 UTC by Domen
Modified: 2015-03-31 20:18 UTC
See Also:
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Description Domen 2009-12-27 16:28:05 UTC 
Description: If you have a gedit opened and selected and then go to Activities overlay and try to open a new window from menu it opens a new tab instead.

OS: Linux Ubuntu 9.10

Build: 23.12.2009

Reproduce:
1. Open a gedit instance
2. Make two tabs in gedit and modify them so create new document will really open a new tab ( so the result will be more apparent )
3. Keep gedit selected
4. Go to Activities
5. Right click on gedit icon in opened applications
6. Select New Window from the menu

Actual Result:
A new tab is opened in an already opened (and currently selected) gedit window

Expected Result:
A new instance (window) of gedit should be opened
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2010-01-04 14:16:30 UTC 
i believe this is NOTABUG, or at least not the bug you think it is; the intent of the "New Window" option in the shell is to do the same thing as File->New in the application, and in gedit that means new tab rather than new window. It's confusing that the shell claims "New Window" in this case though; it would be nice if it could know that gedit would create a new tab rather than a new window
Comment 2 Domen 2010-01-04 16:56:31 UTC 
The part that is confusing is that if you have some other application selected then it opens a new window and in the case described above it opens a new tab... That inconsistency made me think that it's a bug since I didn't see this behaviour elsewhere.
Comment 3 Domen 2010-01-04 17:04:28 UTC 
OK that sounds a bit confusing... What I meant by inconsistency was if I have another application selected while gedit is running and go through steps 1 to 6 it opens a new window but if I have gedit selected it opens a new window... Same application, same steps and only different application selected and it behaves differently... Since activities view somehow represents all workspaces it would be better if activities view wouldn't bother with which application is currently selected and behave as if no application is currently selected.
Comment 4 Domen 2010-01-04 17:07:36 UTC 
Sorry once more: ...opens a new window but if I have gedit selected it opens a new tab not a window...
Comment 5 Colin Walters 2010-01-04 19:56:34 UTC 
Probably we should change the shell to just say "New...".  Opinions?

Another alternative here is we require apps to opt in to the feature, and thus tell us exactly what they support (key in the .desktop file probably).
Comment 6 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-12-04 20:30:19 UTC 
Does the new app menu stuff interact with this at all?
Comment 7 Isaac Ge 2015-03-31 11:47:07 UTC 
I think this bug does not exist in GNOME 3.16 now.
Comment 8 Florian Müllner 2015-03-31 20:18:07 UTC 
Indeed, though it was only fixed very recently.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 744184 ***