[swift-users] Swift - Multiple Sessions

[Mitch Meyer]

All,

I think the command line option is a great fix. It would solve my issue for sure, I could just deploy a new shortcut with the option enabled. Not sure how hard that is from a developer side of things.

You ask how important this is, I would say it’s pretty important. Most consumer IM clients can’t open more than one copy at a time (e.g. AIM, Trillian, Pidgin, etc.) I’ve tried a bunch and Swift is the only one that’s simple enough to deploy to users who don’t understand or care about IM protocols and other advanced stuff. This item is really the only thing that makes it more difficult to use.

Thanks,
Mitch

From: Utkarsh Dixit [mailto:utkarsh.dixit11 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 6:11 AM
To: Kevin Smith
Cc: swift-users at swift.im; Mitch Meyer
Subject: Re: [swift-users] Swift - Multiple Sessions


Hey,

Maybe we could build a command line flag , but not make it active by default, similar to what Mitch suggested (the outlook.exe /recycle ) switch and then give instructions to users on how to activate that flag. Similar to what is done here, by outlook.

https://support.office.com/en-sg/article/Command-line-switches-for-Microsoft-Office-Outlook-2007-92de9e0b-4f97-42a2-8e02-89c4a8294916

Regards,
Utkarsh
On 31 Mar 2015 14:49, "Kevin Smith" <kevin.smith at isode.com<mailto:kevin.smith at isode.com>> wrote:
HI Mitch,

On 24 Mar 2015, at 19:04, Mitch Meyer <mmeyer at heacock.com<mailto:mmeyer at heacock.com>> wrote:
> Hi there, I have about 80 users on Windows that I have recently switched to Swift, and many of them are used to an older IM program we used that recycled the open window every time you click the shortcut to open the program, sort of like the outlook.exe /recycle command switch. Is there a way to make Swift exhibit the same behavior? It’s confusing for the user to have 5 or six open Swift sessions. Even the newest beta still has the same behavior.

This one’s tricky, because being able to launch multiple Swift instances is very desirable where people have multiple accounts. We could consider a commandline flag to change behaviour. How important is this to you?

(And does anyone else on the list have thoughts about this?)

>  Other than this one item, Swift has been working great. Thanks!

Glad to hear it.

/K
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