Comment 1 for bug 1023840

Hello,

The question of whether the program is asked to open a new tab or a new window is a question of invocation and hence should be handled by the invoking entity, e.g. your desktop environment via a launcher or you via a terminal. Therefore this is not implemented as a setting _inside_ qpdfview but as a command-line option which allows for the maximum flexibility to decide in which situation which action should be taken, e.g. by suitably modify the launcher file "qpdfview.desktop". (Not only per-user but also depending on how the program is invoked.)

But since a lot of people seem to expect this as default behaviour, the upcoming version 0.3.2 will ship with the "--unique" command-line option added to the system-wide launcher at "/usr/share/applications/qpdfview.desktop" by default. I think for people just expecting this behaviour, doing it that way should be equivalent to a default setting while keeping the flexibility of a command-line option.

Best regards, Adam.