Bug 17581

Summary:	[mga6-dev1] When multiple instances of Abiword are launched, all are titled: "*Untitled1"
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Ben McMonagle <westel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	abiword-3.0.1-8.mga6.i586	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Ben McMonagle 2016-01-22 10:31:18 CET

Description of problem: when launching more than 1 instance of Abiword, all have the same title : *untitled1
it would be better if the title incremented when more than 1 instance of    *untitled occurs


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-6-dev1-i586-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Tue Jan 19 23:55:15 CET 2016


How reproducible:every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install all DE at once from above .iso
2. login to Cinnamon or LXDE 
3. launch multiple instances of Abiword
4. all share the same title : *untitled1



Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2016-02-05 20:05:38 CET

I'm not sure this counts a bug, I'll let the maintainer decide.

Assigning to him.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => shlomif

Comment 2 Shlomi Fish 2016-02-05 22:28:27 CET

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #1)
> I'm not sure this counts a bug, I'll let the maintainer decide.
> 
> Assigning to him.

I can reproduce this issue on my v6 x86-64 Xfce desktop, but I don't think it's a bug. New instances may have their own state, and if you want the names of the documents to be different, then you should save them (which is a good idea to do as soon as possible anyway). Resolving.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID

Comment 3 Ben McMonagle 2016-02-06 23:48:54 CET

the issue is more that:
starting multiple instances from the launcher  all titles are the same.

starting new instances from within an existing Abiword window using "new" results in incrementing "*untitled(n)"

this is an inconsistancy. yes?
bug. no?

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2016-02-07 10:07:58 CET

(In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #3)
> the issue is more that:
> starting multiple instances from the launcher  all titles are the same.
> 
> starting new instances from within an existing Abiword window using "new"
> results in incrementing "*untitled(n)"
> this is an inconsistancy. yes?
> bug. no?

It is apparently incapable of finding the name of an unsaved document, unless you start the new document from it.

That sounds quite normal to me.

As Shlomi said, you should save new documents as soon as possible. That's a good habit to help prevent unneeded loss of documents and of what's in them. 

I don't see why the Abiword developers or our Abiword maintainer should fix a "bug" that only exists if you have a bad habit ;-)

Comment 5 Shlomi Fish 2016-02-07 15:32:25 CET

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #4)
> (In reply to ben mcmonagle from comment #3)
> > the issue is more that:
> > starting multiple instances from the launcher  all titles are the same.
> > 
> > starting new instances from within an existing Abiword window using "new"
> > results in incrementing "*untitled(n)"
> > this is an inconsistancy. yes?
> > bug. no?
> 
> It is apparently incapable of finding the name of an unsaved document,
> unless you start the new document from it.
> 
> That sounds quite normal to me.
> 
> As Shlomi said, you should save new documents as soon as possible. That's a
> good habit to help prevent unneeded loss of documents and of what's in them. 
> 
> I don't see why the Abiword developers or our Abiword maintainer should fix
> a "bug" that only exists if you have a bad habit ;-)

I agree with Marja here. It's not really a bug and not really a serious one at that.