Bug 53195

Summary:	Expect to allow LibreOffice home screen to launch many times.
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Yifan Jiang <yfjiang>
Component:	Libreoffice	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	me, michael.meeks, yfjiang
Version:	3.5.4 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65765
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Description Yifan Jiang 2012-08-07 02:35:52 UTC

I am transferring the bug to community for having more evaluation :)

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=774692

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When a LO window is already open, starting LO again flashes up the existing
window, instead of opening a new one. This is particularly annoying when
working with multiple desktops.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open some document in LibreOffice.
2. [Optional: switch to a different desktop.]
3. Start LibreOffice.
Actual Results:  
Starting LO from an icon, the bouncy LibreOffice icon appears, along with a
"loading" panel in the Task Manager bar, but nothing else happens. Starting LO
from konsole (command "libreoffice"), the Task Manager flashes up the existing
window.

Expected Results:  
A new LibreOffice window should open. This would be consistent with the
behaviour of (for example) Firefox.

Notice that the problem does not appear when starting Calc, or Writer, etc. --
only when starting LibreOffice.

Comment 1 James 2013-06-23 17:27:40 UTC

That's expected behavior and is the same for all applications on my machine (OS X).

Hence this would be an enhancement request.

You speak of LibreOffice and Writer / Calc as separate things. On OS X "libreOffice" is the only app a user can start. So maybe this is a windows only enhancement request?

In that case, feel free to add some more detail and re-open. For OS X opening a new instance would be "wrong" behavior. Changing that policy would break the workflow for many people, so I'm rather certain that this is a WONTFIX.

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