Re: [Bluez-devel] [PATCH] make bluez GNOME UIs singletons

[Fabien Chevalier <fabchevalier@free.fr>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:48 -0400, Chris Rivera wrote:
>> On 10/17/07, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>>         
>>         actually the wizard and the properties applications are meant
>>         to be
>>         _not_ singletons. They are designed in a way that multiple
>>         instances can
>>         exist and work together.
>>         
>>         For the applet, only one instance is useful. However for
>>         testing and 
>>         development purposes it is nice to start two of them.
>>
>> The applet already has the ability to launch the properties dialog and
>> I think it should also have an entry to launch the wizard.   This
>> makes it very easy to get to a state where you have multiple copies
>> open at once.  I think it's confusing to users and it doesn't buy you
>> anything.  Just in case it's not clear, the patch allows for one
>> instance per desktop session. 
> 
> Both of you are right. Developers should be able to launch another
> applet or prefs for testing, but users should only ever see one applet
> and prefs dialogue.
> 
> Maybe a command-line flag or envvar to disable the singleton behaviour
> in Chris' patch would be acceptable for Marcel?
> 
> Cheers
> 

Bastien, i agree with you. :-)
 From the user experience perspective, having more than one instance of 
those windows is just plain wrong( in fact this was a remark one working 
collegue of mine just had when he discovered the bluez GUI for the first 
time :-) )
If Marcel wants to keep the old behaviour for testing purpose, i'm not 
against it, but i really think the singleton behavior should be the default.

Cheers,

Fabien

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