Bug 418930

Summary: Kile should be able to have multiple instances simultaneously
Product: [Applications] kile Reporter: John S. <jman012345>
Component: generalAssignee: Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.9.92   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description John S. 2020-03-16 16:43:41 UTC 
SUMMARY
When attempting to launch multiple instances of Kile, e.g. to have multiple PDF's render at the same time, the first instance is selected instead of launching a new one.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Launch Kile
2. If in a KDE environment, right click on the Kile taskbar item and select "Start New Instance"
3. Otherwise, find the shortcut to launch Kile and select it.

OBSERVED RESULT
Current Kile taskbar item turns orange as if a new dialog has opened. When selected, it returns to its normal color. No output is produced from this action.

EXPECTED RESULT
A separate instance of Kile should be launched.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.5.8
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.13.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 John S. 2020-04-09 22:48:55 UTC 
While looking through the Kile cgit repository, I found this commit: https://cgit.kde.org/kile.git/commit/?h=1.6

It looks like this functionality was supposed to be put into an earlier version of Kile.