<div dir="ltr">If there is any possible future use case for it, yes. Otherwise imo it's just confusing. Single instance vs multiple instance application is a well known concept. I have never heard of double or triple instance applications though :) <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 6 November 2013 14:43, Gonzalo Odiard <<a href="mailto:gonzalo@laptop.org" target="_blank">gonzalo@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I can't think now a example, but a integer is more future proof. Gonzalo <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="mailto:dwnarvaez@gmail.com">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Is it useful for maximum_instances to be different from 1? Otherwise I tend > to think a single_instance boolean would make more sense and allow a better > alert. > > > On 5 November 2013 18:53, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> I wrote up a page for a proposed enhancement to set limit to open >> activities and open instances [1]. >> >> Summary: >> >> At the request of OLPC AU (in an effort to reduce OOM freezes) this >> patch uses gconf to set a maximum number of open activities. An alert >> is shown if the user tries to launch more activities than the maximum >> asking them to close an activity before opening a new one. If >> maximum_number_of_open_activites is not set or == 0, then there is no >> maximum limit applied. >> >> Further, Some activities don't behave well if more than one instance >> is open (e.g., SL #4554). This patch sets a limit on the number open >> instances of an activity based on a new field in <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a>: >> maximum_instances. >> >> If and only if the maximum_instances field is present in >> <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a>, is it used to set the limit of open instances. >> >> >> thanks for your consideration. >> >> -walter >> >> >> [1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/LaunchLimits" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/LaunchLimits</a> >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > > > > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Daniel Narvaez </div></div>