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Multiple windows

Open gedw99 opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Ability to open more windows for any application.

motivation : you have a need for the user to see more than one screen / view at once, rather than requiring them to navigate back and forwards in the same window.

on desktop you want to open / spawn more than one window.

on web the equivalent is a new browser tab ( not gio tab ). The user could then break out the tab manually to a window if on desktop.

On mobile , it’s a new app window. In other words it’s just like a non multi window app.

So to achieve a consistent outcome we need slightly different behaviour on each device type.

The other way is to use web view on mobile and desktop and open gio tabs . On web it opens browser tabs.

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there is another way which is to make each window a 100% separate gio app.

On desktop it’s just a cmd.exec. On web it’s just a new URL On mobile it’s a new URL Scheme.

Would appreciate any suggestions / ideas about this.

At the moment I like the “ each window is a completely different gio app “ approach .

gedw99 avatar Apr 20 '23 14:04 gedw99