[scribus] Multiple instances of Scribus

[John Beardmore]

Gustavo Homem wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Running Jumping late on this thread I'd like to point the fact that when a 
> user double clicks a .sla file a new instance of Scribus will allways be 
> launched, regardless of whether or not Scribus was already running.
> 
> This is, to me, an usability problem

Yes - it's probably how I got two edits of the same file.


> and the opposite of what users expect 
> from current software.

Not sure about that.  It's exactly what I would have hoped for had I 
done it deliberately.


> In this regard I think Scribus should behave as the other common desktop 
> aplications where the running instance is reused for when more documents are 
> opened (See Adobe Reader, Firefox, Kaffeine, etc).

I'm not sure reuse is that great an option if you want to look at two 
works side by side.

Let's not even say 'MDI child window' or whatever perversity Excel uses.


Cheers, J/.
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