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josephcooney on Aug 4, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus Torvalds dumps Gnome3 for XFCE (G+ discussio...

re: Windows and OSX moving away from it - really? Apart from some exceptions on Win7 clicking an icon brings up a new instance. Exceptions like media player are...exceptions, and at the application's discretion. Unless I'm mis-understanding something you're saying.

hetman on Aug 4, 2011 [–]

I believe he was referring to the Windows 7 taskbar behaviour.

josephcooney on Aug 4, 2011 | [–]

Aaaah, OK. Unfortunately because of corporate firewall policies I wasn't able to read the original post to understand the context.

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