Bug#280564: gedit should open a new pad when an additional instance is spawned

[Adam Lydick]

Package: gedit
Version: 2.6.2-1
Severity: normal


When opening an additional instance of gedit, the existing instance is 
given focus, but the last-selected tab is selected. This is somewhat 
confusing -- if a user attempted to open an instance of gedit, they 
likely wanted to edit a *new* file. Gedit should provide consistent 
behavior regardless of the current instance being the singleton or a 
duplicate.

Repro:

* Open GEdit and enter some text into the default page.
* Launch a new instance of GEdit.
* The original instance (and the original page) will gain focus.

Expected behavior:

* An additional tab should have been created and given focus.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gedit depends on:
ii  gedit-common              2.6.2-1        light-weight text editor support f
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaspell15               0.50.5-3       The GNU Aspell spell-checker runti
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-5        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-7        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                 2.6.2-1        Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libgail-common            1.6.6b-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                 1.6.6b-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.4-2        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeprint2.2-0        2.6.2-3        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture -
ii  libgnomeprintui2.2-0      2.6.2-1        The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1cvs-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-2        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libgtksourceview1.0-0     1.0.1-2        Shared libraries for the GTK+ synt
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-4        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-3       GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper              0.3.14-9.1     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-1      compression library - runtime

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