Bug 358939 - Problem with programs not understanding how many instances were running - eg. repeat backups
Summary: Problem with programs not understanding how many instances were running - eg....
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: knotes
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based) Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2016-02-03 04:09 UTC by Octavia Soleil
Modified: 2022-11-18 05:17 UTC (History)
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Description Octavia Soleil 2016-02-03 04:09:36 UTC
This is not specifically the fault of KDE designers, but I have a suggestion for a remedy.

- There's something that happens with yellow sticky note widget when you put one on the screen and reboot the computer... you sometimes get several blank ones up....

- Also there's something that happens with Libre Office Writer, where it does this thing when there are open documents and the computer reboots... multiple extra blank and repeat backed up documents pop up upon restarting Libre office.

This is my suggestion... and it requires a lot of work - so who knows if someone will think it's worthwhile: 

Both these things seem to be a result of the program being in the dark about how many instances it had open at any given time. From my hobbyist programmer experience, I know how difficult it might be to discern this fact, given users can call up instances both from the program's "New" button, and also from the operating system itself, through a shortcut link, or a command in the terminal.

I'm not even sure that KDE has something like Windows' "Win32Api..." but if it does... it'd be great to include a module that would allow programs to call up information about the history of instances that have been called by the OS... and the number of instances that are in memory at the present time.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2022-10-19 22:10:45 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-03 05:07:20 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2022-11-18 05:17:35 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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