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

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2005-06-21 18:26:52 +0300 Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> Package: gworkspace.app
> Version: 0.7.0-1
> Tags: forwarded
> 
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> 
> If there was more than one Viewer when GWorkspace was closed, after the
> restart it will show only one Viewer.  When the Viewers had different
> configuration of their Shelf after the restart only the Shelf of one of
> the Viewers will be preserved.
> 
> On NeXTstep I didn't have the need of tabbed shelf because I was keeping one 
> Viewer for each of my tasks.  One of them was maximized and the others 
> miniaturized.  Each of them had different items on its Shelf.  However 
> GWorkspace doesn't allow me to use it the same way.
> 
> Anton Zinoviev

GWorkspace remembers all the open viewers that are not rooted on the same directory; the only exception exists if two viewers are on the same directory but one of them is in spatial mode and the other in browsing mode.

Anyway, you should consider that, even if GWorkspace looks like the NeXTstep file viewer, it is not a clone.
This for various reasons, but the first of them comes from the fact that its author has never used (or seen) NeXTstep :-)
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!
In the time I've learned to like the *step interface and I've tried to keep the GWorkspace behaviour as close as possible to the users expectatives but my background remains and, probably, it is present in the GWorkspace "feel".