How to set up Menu items such that if an instance is already running, the running instance is brought to the foreground?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 17:16, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
> Dotan, while writing the above, I thought of another angle, as well.
> Perhaps part of the problem for your seniors is kde's session management.
> If they quit kde with several app instances running and kde restarts them
> when it comes back up, but they don't understand that, they may be
> starting a new instance each time, not thinking that kde might have
> remembered what was running the last time and restarted it, so the
> instances gradually build up...
>
> Of course, you can make kde start with a clean session each time, if you
> wish.  That would cure that issue.
>

For my mother in law I know that it starts a new session each time.
For the other I'm not sure, but I will check it.


> But what about going about it from the other angle?  Have kde start all
> the apps they need, then save that as their session, and hide the
> launcher, so all they have is the taskbar.  You could take the close
> button off the title bar too, making it more difficult to close the apps,
> and if they did, they'd only have to restart kde to have the pre-set
> session come back with all their apps.
>

That's actually not a bad idea! I already run a fix-kde script when
they log into to reset the damage that they've done to the panel the
last time:

#!/bin/bash
kbuildsycoca4
kquitapp plasma-desktop
cp $HOME/.bin/kde-fix/plasma-desktoprc $HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc
cp $HOME/.bin/kde-fix/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
$HOME/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc
kstart plasma-desktop

Adding the apps that I know they use (and I know all the apps that
they use) would be trivial. Thanks, that is a terrific solution!


> It may or may not work in practice, but it's certainly thinking about the
> problem from "outside the box".  Reverse the problem and it goes away. =:^)
>

I will try it and we'll see in a few weeks if it helps. Thanks!


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