Comment 5 for bug 417162
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| Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy) wrote Re: [Bug 417162] Re: Mac OS X windows start in background | #5 |
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Martin Pool wrote:
> On 4 February 2010 07:47, Ian Clatworthy <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Explorer's sub-command launching is reasonably well isolated in
>> app_runner.py. Perhaps we need a custom implementation of launching
>> commands on OS X?
>
> So every dialog is a separate process? That would explain it, also bug
> 516447.
>
> I guess you either need to find some os x magic to say "these are
> actually the same app though they're different processes" or run the
> dialogs in the same process or tolerate the bugs. jfroy may be able
> to offer some advice.
>
Or more ideally, a separate thread in the same process. (One advantage
of the separate processes now is command isolation wrt errors and
non-blocking of the UI thread).
Ian C.