[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#315267: Remembers the state of only one Viewer

Enrico Sersale enrico@dtedu.net, 315267@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:50:55 +0300


On 2005-06-30 13:57:21 +0300 Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:48:38PM +0300, Enrico Sersale wrote:
>> 
>> This for various reasons, but the first of them comes from the fact that 
>> its author has never used (or seen) NeXTstep :-)
> 
> Then I am impressed of how well you cloned it.  Really! :-)
> 
>> I have been a Mac user from 1986 and, when I started to write my app, only 
>> the idea of two viewer windows showing the same directory seemed to me 
>> simply an aberration!
> 
> It is not if the two Viewers have different items on their Shelfs. :-)
> 
> Well, if multiple Shelfs are not supported by GWorkspace this is OK (if
> I am the only one who has used this feature).  However then GWorkspace
> should not allow the user to create different Shelfs in different
> Viewers.  Otherwise the user can not be sure which one of the Shelfs
> will be preserved after the restart.

 From this point of wiew you are right. Fixed. Now GWorkspace supports multiple viewers opened on / and remembers the contents of the shelfs.