Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 29.10.2008, at 16:51, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
> <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
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>> Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>>> I have a general sugar UI question: My activity, "License", a  
>>> simple comic
>>> book reader <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/License> that has a license  
>>> chooser
>>> aspect to it, can be launched multiple times if clicked multiple  
>>> times
>>> from the activity launcher.
>>>
>>> To me, that seems silly.  Is it normal for Sugar activities to be  
>>> able to
>>> be launched multiple times like this?
>>
>> I don't understand. Why are you surprised?  This is how every  
>> multitasking
>> OS works*.
>
> OS X does not work that way, right?


Right.

- Bert -