auto remove Launcher if foo/bar

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi.

Stephan Arts, 03.10.2007 21:32:
> On 10/3/07, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>> Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Is there a way to make a launcher Icon disapears when the application is
>>> launched?
>>> For example, if I have a thunderbird launcher, as long as TB is alive,
>>> its launcher should disapear.
>>> That could (try to) avoid having duplicated instances of some softwares...
>>> Isn't it?
>> IMO this is kinda confusing and not a good idea.
> 
> Well, it might...
> 
>> If applications should only spawn one instance, the app should take care of
>> only allowing this on its own.
> 
> I agree with you there, however I find it an interesting research
> subject. So I will write a patch to implement this feature (should be
> trivial) just to see if it works.

Just my opinion: If something like this gets implemented, the launcher should
not be removed but disabled instead. Otherwise this could become very confusing.


Regards, Mathias

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