On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:15:40 +0200, Aurimas wrote:
>> I think this is sort of intentional. If I understand the way
this is
>> supposed to work correctly then you are not supposed to care if Firefox is
>> already running but instead simply click on it in your favorites and if an
>> instance is already running it will be brought into focus or a new instance
>> is started.
>
>
> This obviously makes little/no sense - how does the gnome launcher
> know when I want to bring the existing running app to foreground versus
> when I want a new instance of same app?
Have you tried right-click?
Right-click is flawed, as it doesn't offer to start the app if no instance of
the app is running already:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-February/097333.html
To start a new instance of an app, you are supposed to drag'n'drop the Favorites
icon onto the desktop. Right-click only works if the app is running already.