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On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 08:57 -0800, Noah Roberts wrote:

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> On 12/18/05, Ross Vandegrift  wrote:

> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 03:51:37PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:

> > > Simple things don't even work, like, if I click a media link that opens

> > > an external player, then it finishes playing, then I click another link,

> > > rather than opening in the same player it launches a new one.

> > > Eventually I have 50 media players open.

> >

> > It's not the job of the browser to keep accounting on external apps.

> > If it were, it'd be doomed to failure anyhow - that task can never be

> > accomplished.

> >

> > Rather, it is up to the individual applications to do the right thing

> > if there is a session already open.

> >

> > xmms has worked the way you seem to expect since its inception.

>

> At some point I managed to get it not to do that and I don't know how

> I did it.  I upgraded and now it opens in the same window, toasting my

> previous song list.  I prefer it to open a bunch of windows myself.

>

> 

Well it DEFINITELY should never toast the previous song list.  The

default action should be "enqueue" not "play".
Lee