[Sugar-devel] new feature for 102: Launch Limits

[Daniel Narvaez]

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 :)

On 6 November 2013 14:43, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> I can't think now a example, but a integer is more future proof.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> 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 <walter.bender at gmail.com> 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 activity.info:
> >> maximum_instances.
> >>
> >> If and only if the maximum_instances field is present in
> >> activity.info, is it used to set the limit of open instances.
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks for your consideration.
> >>
> >> -walter
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/LaunchLimits
> >>
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