Re: [bug #6056] Duplicate application launching

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 01:35 AM, Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Adam Fedor wrote:
> > I think if we are just discussing a bug report we could just reply via
> > the big mailing list  and not go to the trouble of adding entries to
> > the bug report itself.
> >
> > I don't know if I can add a Reply-To: header to make that easier.
>
> On the other hand, replying in the bug report keeps the information
> about the bug collected in one place, so it isn't a completely 
> pointless
> exercise. :)
>
> Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > So ... I see two things to be fixed:
> >
> > a) activate running app if we call the api to launch it.
>
> This is what the patch we're looking at fixes. The current working
> version does so by adding a method to GSListener, and I'm still 
> thinking
> about whether doing that is a Good Thing or not.

Adding a new method like application:activateIgnoringOtherApps: to
the GSServicesManager class following the same scheme as
application:openFile: etc  looks like the cleanest/simplest  way to do 
that.
Methods named 'application:...' are already passed to the application
delegate or to the manager object.

Changing the code of the GSListener class itsself would be a little
more complex I suppose.

As the NSWorkpace class already has a connection to the application,
it seems a pity not to use it, but another approach would be to add
a new workspace notification to tell the app to activate itsself.