Bug 270286

Summary:	Launcher: ability to launch multiple instances
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	widget-taskbar	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	hein, kde-2011.08, non7top, toddrme2178
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Dotan Cohen 2011-04-07 07:47:54 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

The KDE 4.6 taskbar lets the user add launchers. However, one can only launch a single instance of an application with it. Some applications, such as Dolphin or Firefox, are handy to have multiple instances of. Please add the ability to launch an additional instance of a running application.

Thanks.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2011-04-07 07:49:30 UTC

Some ideas for the UI to open a new instance:
1) Context (right-click) menu
2) Middle-clicking
3) Double-clicking
4) Something else?

Comment 2 Todd 2011-07-31 06:43:39 UTC

Middle-clicking is already used for expanding groups.  Double-clicking seems poorly-discoverable.  So I would say right-click menu would be best.

Comment 3 Vladimir Berezhnoy 2011-10-29 19:17:14 UTC

Windows uses shift+click for exactly same purpose, so having this combination would be handy and consistent. Anyway <mod>+click does nothing at the moment.

Comment 4 Eike Hein 2016-06-16 23:43:37 UTC

Options for this are available in Plasma 5.