Click links in Evolution and other gnome apps

[John Ellson]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:

>Recently a change has been made (and by recently I mean the last few
>months) where links clicked in gnome applications (like evolution) load
>in a new tab in Firefox.  This is a nice idea, except when Firefox is
>open, but on another window.
>
>It took me quite a bit of clicking the first time to realize that the
>link I was clicking on was loading, just in a browser in another window,
>and what's more, it was loading a lot of times in seperate tabs because
>I had clicked it a lot of times.
>
>Am I the only one that this is driving bug shit?
>
>While I like the idea of the link loading in another tab in an already
>open firefox window, I also think that if the firefox window is on
>another desktop, then it should either a/ use an already open firefox
>window on the current desktop, or b/ if there is no firefox window on
>the current desktop, open one and use this.
>
>This is going to be a real usability issue for users when FC5 is
>released, with users asking why clicking links in evolution doesn't open
>them in firefox.
>
>Is this driving others mad, and should it be filed in
>bugzilla.redhat.com or upstream in bugzilla.gnome.org?
>
>
>Rodd
>
>  
>
Personally I like that applications open tabs in an existing browser if 
available.
I don't think it will take long for users to adjust to this idea.

However, I do agree that opening multiple tabs from the same application
is a pain.  There should be some support for named "targets" such that 
an application
can reuse a tab that it had previously opened.    IMHO.

John