Description of problem: gedit uses a tabbed interface by default on Fedora. Even starting the application a second time from the Applications menu, it opens a new tab in the existing window instead of opening a new window. This is contrary to the GNOME SDI guideline. gedit should open a new window by default as every other program does. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gedit-2.15.9-1.fc6
As seen in external bz. reference, the upstream rejected this as not a bug.... Too bad!
Actually... reopen. I think that Fedora should modify the gedit.desktop and include the --new-window option. Also supposedly a simple plugin can disable the display of the tab bar, I am (was) a new gedit user so I have no idea if such a plugin exists. Does anyone more experienced with gedit know? If there is such a plugin Fedora should include it by default -- if not maybe I can write one if it really is easy. Or did I arrive late and is this an already lost holy war?
This seems not to be fixed in Fedora 7: There is no --new-window option in the gedit.desktop file.
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