Subject: Re: Multiple instances of Abi
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 14:27:26 CDT
At 03:14 PM 8/19/01 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
>On Sunday 19 August 2001 15:16, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> I've not seen any use cases where it would be preferable to have two MSDI
>> instances running in parallel. Instead, each new document launched should
>> use OS-specific means to detect and reuse the existing instance, so that
>> the cross-document features (autosave, window menu, duplicate detection,
>> etc.) all Just Work.
>
>For duplicate detection, how should we handle it if the same user is logged
>in from two X servers, runs Abi on both, and opens the same document?
I remember that Shaw *had* a proposal that sounded reasonable, but I don't
remember what it was. If a search of the mailing list archives doesn't
locate anything, we could ask.
BTW, that sounds like a "well, don't do that" kind of situation. ;-)
Paul
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