Allowing an activity to be launched multiple times in parallel

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:06 AM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Carol Hussein Lerche wrote:
>
>> I don't disagree with the need to speed up the system.  However, browsing
>> with multiple tabs is a well known solution to the problem of having
>> multiple browser instances open, and we have tossed that out for some
>> reason.
>
> those 'tabs' could even be seperate screens and work without requiring
> multiple copies of the browser to run.
>
> this was done in the name of 'simplifying' the system (along with
> eliminating popups and modal interfaces)

We always had disagreements about it in the design team. I wouldn't
consider that a decision made at this point. It's more that we never
found an agreement and hence it was never implemented.

Though, admittedly, with the current tabbed toolbars, it would get
pretty bad both from visual noise and screen aestate point of views.
But that's going to change.

Marco