On 12/18/05, Ross Vandegrift <ross@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > Simple things don't even work, like, if I click a media link that opens
> > an external player, then it finishes playing, then I click another link,
> > rather than opening in the same player it launches a new one.
> > Eventually I have 50 media players open.
>
> It's not the job of the browser to keep accounting on external apps.
> If it were, it'd be doomed to failure anyhow - that task can never be
> accomplished.
>
> Rather, it is up to the individual applications to do the right thing
> if there is a session already open.
>
> xmms has worked the way you seem to expect since its inception.
At some point I managed to get it not to do that and I don't know how
I did it. I upgraded and now it opens in the same window, toasting my
previous song list. I prefer it to open a bunch of windows myself.
Received on Tue Dec 20 20:15:06 2005
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