> On 08 Jan 2016, at 12:56, René J. V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorvig Morten wrote: > >> But you seldom want to have two instances of (say) Mail running - you start >> it, or bring the existing one to front. So kLSLaunchNewInstance does not >> seems >> that useful in practice. > > It'd probably depend on the application whether you want to be able to launch > a > separate instance. Something like Qt Creator would be an example where you > might > indeed want to be able to start a 2nd instance that has a different > project/session open. > > In other words, an API for gui-style launching of applications would probably > need a flag to indicate whether or not a new instance is desired in case an > instance is already running.
How can you know what the target application prefers? (now or in the future). > >> It could be long wait for the notification: closing the last application >> window does usually not cause the application process to exit. If we want to > > Doesn't the same apply to other kinds of applications, or at least to the > current termination notification for GUI applications started through > QProcess? It does, but I think that’s fine. QProcess works with processes on the unix level and behaves as expected. For a Gui-level features perhaps ‘process’ is the wrong abstraction and we want to have API on QDesktopServices instead. Morten _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
