Comment 8 for bug 489372

I tried to report a bug and then stumbled on this bug report. I think it relates to the same bug, but I am not quite sure.

According to my understanding of the docky, the default behaviour is: If i click on an icon in the docky the respective application is launched. No new icon is added to the docky, instead a light (LED) is added below the original icon. If I click on the icon with the light added, the docky will not launch an additional instance of the application. Instead it will merely display the open instance of the application.

So, I dragged the home folder from the panel "places"-"home-folder" to the docky. This is the behaviour I expected: If I launch the home folder (nautilus), then an instance of nautilus is opened. A light is displayed below the icon in the dockey. Instead, this is the behaviour I observe: An additional icon is displayed in the docky similiar to the original icon. This icon is called "file manager" and a light is displayed below the file manager.

I don't know whether this is a bug or the intended behaviour. From my naive understanding of the docky, it doesn't make sense because it deviates from the expected default behaviour. After pinning the "file manager" to the docky, the file manager behaved as expected. So it's working fine now, but I found out about this "solution" merely by chance. I didn't expect that this would behave any different from dragging the home folder from the panel. Both icons look pretty much identical, but they behave differently. It's probably just a minor glitch, but I thought I would share it with you.

Maybe I'm just nitpicking, maybe I'm wrong. I just thought I would share my thoughts with you.

I really like the docky and appreciate your work a lot.

Regards,

kikl