Bug 350850

 This prompt is
> annoying, superflous, and inconsistent with all other apps. KMM should just
> open the 2nd file in a new window, or if that file is already open in an
> existing window then just switch focus to that existing window like all
> other apps do, e.g. word-processors, editors, terminals, etc. 
>
<snip>

> This bug is obvious and has existed for many years but has probably not been
> complained about because clearly most people only use one KMM file.

I don't think would class KMyMoney together with all other KMM apps.  To me, it's data is
important.  I could imagine opening KMM, then getting called away, coming back and 
opening a second instance, and then wondering why some of my data has gone missing.

I suspect many other users would want to be warned of the potential danger, otherwise,
as you point out, someone already would have asked for a change.

If such a change were to be implemented,  I would hope it would optional.

The comment above shows my description is not clear. :(

Let's explicitly describe a normal application. If you open a.doc from the file manager then libreoffice opens that doc in a window. If you later open b.doc from the file manager then libreoffice immediately opens that doc in another window. Later you open a.doc again from the file manager (while libreoffice already has that a.doc open in an existing window but perhaps hidden, minimized, or forgotten about) then libreoffice just immediately brings the existing open a.doc window to the foreground. There is no question of corrupting the a.doc file or having "missing data" because the app never allows 2 open windows on the same file. This same logic applies to just about every common application and file type in all modern linux, windows, or mac desktops (e.g. for pdf files etc). Kmymoney should obviously do the same thing with kmm files.  Most users rarely use multiple kmm files in parallel and that is the only reason this long standing bug has never been addressed.

I just noticed that if you try to open a file twice (by clicking through that first prompt) then KMM outputs another prompt that the file is already open. So at the very least please completely delete that first prompt as it is pointless. Ideally however, please fix this issue as I suggest above.

It looks like my request here won't get any traction. So please change this bug request to just delete that first redundant prompt as per my post 1 above. That's it, a simple change which should take little time.

I don't care anymore about trying to raise any existing window as I can do that myself with a desktop file wrapper script calling wmctrl. If this bug gets fixed then I will post that script publicly as it works well with kmymoney.

On 31/08/15 02:29, Mark Blakeney wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350850
>
> --- Comment #4 from Mark Blakeney <mark.blakeney@bullet-systems.net> ---
> It looks like my request here won't get any traction. So please change this bug
> request to just delete that first redundant prompt as per my post 1 above.
> That's it, a simple change which should take little time.
>
> I don't care anymore about trying to raise any existing window as I can do that
> myself with a desktop file wrapper script calling wmctrl. If this bug gets
> fixed then I will post that script publicly as it works well with kmymoney.
>

Don't take the lack of activity as an indication of disinterest.  We 
have no paid support people - they have to earn their crust - so please 
don't expect immediate solutions, as they may not come.  Then, 
priorities have to be taken into account - food first, then a crash will 
beat a wish-list request.

If you can produce a patch, that would help.

Allan

I was hoping that kmymoney version 5 would address this issue (which I raised 2.5 years ago!) however I see that it has made the situation worse. The issue here still exists but now you can open the same file twice or more and kmymoney does not complain about it. Presumably you could edit the file in parallel and corrupt it?

Please see my comment #2 above. That is how normal apps behave for multiple files and is how KMM should behave also. I really think many users would be complaining about this if it were not the case that 99% of users maintain only 1 KMM file.

Git commit 3fc2c1f422c6ea415bdbd65703a4835504ccb4c6 by Łukasz Wojniłowicz.
Committed on 04/03/2018 at 13:24.
Pushed by wojnilowicz into branch 'master'.

Register KMyMoney with process ID
FIXED-IN:5.0.1

M  +1    -1    kmymoney/kmymoney.cpp
M  +0    -3    kmymoney/main.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/kmymoney/3fc2c1f422c6ea415bdbd65703a4835504ccb4c6

Git commit 8a79b26a253fdd9a7e719a112e9610788aa9ebff by Thomas Baumgart.
Committed on 04/03/2018 at 15:04.
Pushed by tbaumgart into branch '5.0'.

Register KMyMoney with process ID

FIXED-IN:5.0.1

(cherry picked from commit 3fc2c1f422c6ea415bdbd65703a4835504ccb4c6)

M  +1    -1    kmymoney/kmymoney.cpp
M  +0    -3    kmymoney/main.cpp

https://commits.kde.org/kmymoney/8a79b26a253fdd9a7e719a112e9610788aa9ebff

After raising this bug 3 years ago I wrote a small script to work around this problem and have used it ever since with KMM. If anybody else comes along looking for the same solution that I requested here (but was never addressed by the "fixes" above), then see https://github.com/bulletmark/raise-or-run.